Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Digital back-ends allow vendors to ingest massive troves of commercial surveillance ...
Digital back-ends allow vendors to ingest massive troves of commercial surveillance data from the unregulated data-broker industry to calculate how desperate you are, and how much money you have. Then, digital front-ends - like websites and apps - allow vendors to adjust prices in realtime based on that data, repricing goods for every buyer.
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