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Corporations are weaponizing your personal data to inflate prices, suppress wages, and undermine transparency and basic fairness. This panel will expose how a convergence of corporate power and new technology has created a dizzying array of deceptive pricing practices. From surveillance pricing on airfares to algorithmic price fixing by landlords, companies are leveraging troves of consumer data to rip off customers. Our panelists will share how they have successfully defeated some of these nefarious practices and what policymakers, regulators, and consumers can do to fight back.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
By SXSWCorporations are weaponizing your personal data to inflate prices, suppress wages, and undermine transparency and basic fairness. This panel will expose how a convergence of corporate power and new technology has created a dizzying array of deceptive pricing practices. From surveillance pricing on airfares to algorithmic price fixing by landlords, companies are leveraging troves of consumer data to rip off customers. Our panelists will share how they have successfully defeated some of these nefarious practices and what policymakers, regulators, and consumers can do to fight back.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.