The Rise of 'Surveillance Pricing' and the Data Privacy Frontier
Evidence-based strategic foresight on emergent threat paradigms.
The Congressional inquiry into 'surveillance pricing' by food retailers marks the beginning of a new front in the data privacy war. As retailers use AI to set variable prices based on individual consumer data, the definition of 'personal data' will expand to include economic behavior. This will likely lead to a 'CCPA 2.0' or federal equivalent that treats 'pricing algorithms' as a regulated form of consumer profiling.
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