San Francisco: Don’t Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

The concept of “surveillance pricing” is just one part of a much larger problem and business model: corporations maximizing their profits by invading our privacy. The all-too-common business model is to systematically harvest, collate, and store as much of our personal data as possible, and then monetize it through use and sale. When it comes to surveillance pricing, that looks like corporations offering the same product to two different people at two different prices, based on harvested persona

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ethics.ai (28 July 2026), “San Francisco: Don’t Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing,” evidence record 14176, https://ethics.ai/record/14176 (originally published by EFF Deeplinks).

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