Colorado lawmakers look to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting | Colorado Newsline

The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that aims to reign in companies’ use of personal data to set individualized prices.

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Walmart Wins Patents To Give Algorithms More Sway Over Prices - Slashdot

Walmart has secured patents for systems that use machine learning to forecast demand and automate pricing decisions, "pushing the U.S. retail behemoth into a debate over the use of algorithms to adjust product costs," reports the Financial Times. From the report: In January Walmart obtained a U.S. ...

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 21, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Dems Want to Ban #SurveillancePricing at Big Grocery Stores; I Verified My #LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over; As #AI leaps forward, concern rises that #innovation is leaving safety behind; Chinese telecom hackers likely holding stolen data ‘in perpetuity’ for later attempts, #FBI official says; and Good Luck Banning #smartglasses

Posted in: #ai #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #egovernment #Privacy Social Media, Technology Trends

https://www.llrx.com/2026/02/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-february-21-2026/

Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/21/cod-marxism/

Pluralistic: Google’s AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google's AI agent shopping protocol -- Google says she's wrong | TechCrunch

A consumer economics watchdog says Google's new Universal Commerce Protocol is ripe for misuse where consumers could pay more for items. Google denies this.

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Surveillance Pricing, come l’intelligenza artificiale usa i nostri dati personali: A molti utenti in cerca di offerte convenienti sul web sara’ capitato di vedere prezzi che oscillano notevolmente a seconda dei siti che visitano o i momenti in cui...
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📢 New blog post from The Rebel Tech Alliance: this time about Surveillance Pricing

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/surveillance-pricing/

As we researched it, the picture changed somewhat.... enjoy the article!

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Surveillance Pricing

Did you know the data that big tech, websites and apps harvest from you can be used to manipulate the prices you see online? If they can personalise ads, then they can personalise pricing. Since most people never truly consent to this harvesting, the practice is more accurately called surveillance

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