<story><title>FTC launches probe into &apos;surveillance pricing&apos;</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/ftc-launches-probe-into-surveillance-pricing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>You should tone the paranoia down a notch. Realistically speaking if they can&amp;#x27;t identify you they&amp;#x27;ll just give you a worse price. It makes absolutely no sense to refuse a sale.</text></item><item><author>toofy</author><text>surveillance pricing is such a bleak future.&lt;p&gt;pull up to a fuel pump, price boxes above the individual fuel hoses say “To learn pricing, for your convenience, please scan your phone’s NFC chip so we can determine your personal income and economy-wide purchase history.”&lt;p&gt;“Oh, it looks like you’re in the mor17-36-97wcmyoal-93 pricing group!”&lt;p&gt;“However, our scan indicates there are 2 other individuals in your automobile. To ensure an accurate pricing model, for your convenience please scan person1 and person2 mobile NFC chips.”&lt;p&gt;“Oh, we see passenger number 3 is in raf79-93-18hswcpfu—32 pricing. Thank you!&lt;p&gt;“Unfortunately, we’re
unable to determine passenger 2’s income and economy-wide purchase history due to their lack of NFC ID. For your convenience please see teller inside for pricing options.”&lt;p&gt;“If you question the validity of our estimations, please send a certified postal letter to our headquarters with the price ids previously shown on screen during the passenger scans. (&lt;i&gt;The postal mailing address can be conveniently received by request from welovecustomers@fuelUSA.com Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing and we’ll get that postal address to you in a timely manner.&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;p&gt;just let me fuel my car… please…&lt;p&gt;onto the grocery store we go… “Please open our convenient  app and scan the item for pricing.” … “This app requires the permissions…”&lt;p&gt;and just for the record, since some or our tech monarchs fail to tell the difference, this is dystopian, bad. not good. this is not a “neat future.” even if we throw some neon music on top, it’s still horrifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frankbreetz</author><text>Not if there is a monopoly on service and you can&amp;#x27;t afford.&lt;p&gt;The gas and electric company already know who you are. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t put it past them to start doing this.</text></comment>
<story><title>FTC launches probe into &apos;surveillance pricing&apos;</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/ftc-launches-probe-into-surveillance-pricing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>You should tone the paranoia down a notch. Realistically speaking if they can&amp;#x27;t identify you they&amp;#x27;ll just give you a worse price. It makes absolutely no sense to refuse a sale.</text></item><item><author>toofy</author><text>surveillance pricing is such a bleak future.&lt;p&gt;pull up to a fuel pump, price boxes above the individual fuel hoses say “To learn pricing, for your convenience, please scan your phone’s NFC chip so we can determine your personal income and economy-wide purchase history.”&lt;p&gt;“Oh, it looks like you’re in the mor17-36-97wcmyoal-93 pricing group!”&lt;p&gt;“However, our scan indicates there are 2 other individuals in your automobile. To ensure an accurate pricing model, for your convenience please scan person1 and person2 mobile NFC chips.”&lt;p&gt;“Oh, we see passenger number 3 is in raf79-93-18hswcpfu—32 pricing. Thank you!&lt;p&gt;“Unfortunately, we’re
unable to determine passenger 2’s income and economy-wide purchase history due to their lack of NFC ID. For your convenience please see teller inside for pricing options.”&lt;p&gt;“If you question the validity of our estimations, please send a certified postal letter to our headquarters with the price ids previously shown on screen during the passenger scans. (&lt;i&gt;The postal mailing address can be conveniently received by request from welovecustomers@fuelUSA.com Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing and we’ll get that postal address to you in a timely manner.&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;p&gt;just let me fuel my car… please…&lt;p&gt;onto the grocery store we go… “Please open our convenient  app and scan the item for pricing.” … “This app requires the permissions…”&lt;p&gt;and just for the record, since some or our tech monarchs fail to tell the difference, this is dystopian, bad. not good. this is not a “neat future.” even if we throw some neon music on top, it’s still horrifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toofy</author><text>i was being hyperbolic and sarcastic for the sake of illustrating a directional trend we seem to be barreling towards.&lt;p&gt;my apologies if i didn’t go far enough to make it more obvious. my fault.</text></comment>