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The insurance company will knock a few dollars off your premium if you let it plug a device into your car or track you through your phone. It’s sold as a reward for good driving. The part they don’t lead with is that the same data becomes a permanent, shareable record of exactly how you […]
Read the case →Two people sitting in the same row paid two different prices for the same flight, and the airline didn’t pick those numbers by accident. It picked them by watching you, before you ever got on the plane. The fare that moves with your search Airline pricing has always been a maze of fare classes, buckets, […]
Read the case →In August 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice sued RealPage, a Texas software company, for operating what it described as an unlawful scheme that helped apartment landlords fix rental prices. The software in question is Revenue Management, the umbrella brand for YieldStar and AI Revenue Management (AIRM), and the core idea is simple and corrosive: […]
Read the case →Dek: AI’s most quietly devastating use case isn’t taking your job – it’s deciding what your job is worth, one stolen data point at a time. On the July 28 episode of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, Cory Doctorow – science-fiction novelist, EFF activist, and the man who gave us the word “enshittification” – […]
Read the case →Dek: You already knew inflation was real. What you didn’t know is that the grocery store has decided – using AI and your purchase history – exactly how much you’re willing to pay. For each other person in the checkout line, the answer is different. We all know the excuses for the grocery bill. Inflation. […]
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