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Maryland Becomes First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Groceries (www.commondreams.org)
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A new law will ban retailers from using shoppers' personal data to hike grocery prices—but consumer advocates warn it contains loopholes that companies could exploit.

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Companies just have way too much data about people.

It should be illegal to store/compile data that isn't directly related to the good, services or products that you're offering.

We're getting to the point where everything about you, down to your real-time location, is available to anyone with enough money. That's just not a power that we should allow to go unregulated.

[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

all companies are in the data business now. that IS the business.

i told a friend maybe 2 years ago that mcdonalds app and changing to digital drive thru menus would mean they could change prices at any time and even per customer. he thought it would be “too difficult”

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We really need a non profit that buys data on politicians and Billionaires and then just make an app for people to follow them around and harass them to get this banned.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

This guy has the right idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet

Though his posts on Twitter have a 24h delay due to their change in community guidelines.

You can get live information from their website: https://grndcntrl.net/

[–] BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

This is the real crux of the issue. Data collection and algorithmic incentives are destroying society.