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California lawmakers want to ban companies from using data about consumers’ devices like battery life, model and geolocation to set fluctuating prices. Proponents say such “surveillance pricing” is discriminatory.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yup, and all they had to do was automate millions of A B tests to figure out it’s effective. They can tweak and tune based on all sorts of data points.