A Boring Dystopia

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Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. (lemmy.world)

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[–] dotned@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How do they know what my income is?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

If you aren't 100% committed to data privacy all the time, which is damn hard to do and live in society, they could probably tell how many pimples you have on your ass and charge accordingly.

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 months ago

You'd probably be surprised and scared if you knew what companies know about you.

[–] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

Because they can pay 10 million to a consulting firm to develop a customer-profiling model that predicts their income based on the most recent purchases with a 10% margin of error.