Cory Doctorow on Nostr: As digital front-ends move into the real world (say, with digital e-ink shelf-tags in ...
As digital front-ends move into the real world (say, with digital e-ink shelf-tags in grocery stores), vendors can use surveillance data to reprice goods for ever-larger groups of customers and types of merchandise. Grocers with e-ink shelf tags reprice their goods *thousands of times, every day*:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/26/glitchbread/#electronic-shelf-tags8/
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