This is a video recording of a Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing titled "Your Data, Their Profit: The Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pricing." If you don't have the 90 minutes to watch the video, Liz Brandt has written a summary on LinkedIn. The idea here is that companies use surveillance technology to learn about you and then adjust their prices accordingly. Practices include, for example, charging more for a Lyft ride if your phone battery is low, being charged $150 more if you're in the Target store, selling personal data, and changing electronic price labels minute by minute. I think that if education has a role in all this (and it should, right?) it should be in helping people respond: building connections, sharing information, forming cooperatives, organizing, the like. We don't see that so much in education. Usually students learn how to work for companies rather than to push back against them.
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