How ‘surveillance pricing’ uses our personal data to charge us more

As we buy more and more things online, companies are using personal data to offer different prices to different people with the goal of finding the maximum price you will pay at that moment.PLUS: What’s behind the Trump administration’s feud with the Pope?The case for putting Mariah Carey in the Rock and Roll Hall of FameCan community ownership decommodify real estate?Canadian actor Sugith Varughese's one-man play about how he came to play a doctor 26 timesRemembering the Kroftt brothers’ weird, trippy vision for kids TVRiffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.

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As we buy more and more things online, companies are using personal data to offer different prices to different people with the goal of finding the maximum price you will pay at that moment.PLUS: What’s behind the Trump administration’s feud with the Pope?The case for putting Mariah Carey in the Rock and Roll Hall of FameCan community ownership decommodify real estate?Canadian actor Sugith Varughese's one-man play about how he came to play a doctor 26 timesRemembering the Kroftt brothers’ weird, trippy vision for kids TVRiffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.

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