This Week on What the Hack: Fictitious Pricing and More
Fictitious discounts. Payday markups. AI setting airfares in real time. Investigative reporter Derek Kravitz, Grace Gedye (Consumer Reports) are joined by David Dayen to expose the algorithms that decide if you pay more or less than your neighbor for the exact same thing.
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This Week on What the Hack: How Does Surveillance Pricing Work?
This Week on What the Hack: How Does Surveillance Pricing Work?
Welcome to the infuriating world of surveillance pricing. Chris “the Producer” Parr created a digital nobody to find out whether companies would charge the new him less. What he found was stranger. So how much does what companies know about you affect what you pay?
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