20 Dec 2025 - transcript and audio at link - If you’re going online to buy some last-minute gifts this holiday season, there’s a chance the price you pay will be influenced by what’s known as “surveillance pricing.” Some retailers are using artificial intelligence to set individualized prices online by sifting through personal data, including age, gender, location and browsing history. Ali Rogin speaks with Jay Stanley at the ACLU for more.
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Must not have taken when pasted in - does this sub not accept URLs for posts? Anyhoo, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-online-retailers-are-using-ai-to-adjust-prices-by-mining-your-personal-data
You can submit a link OR a text post, not both, this is standard across most (all?) subreddits. You likely switched tabs to start a new text post submission after entering a link in link submission tab, and incorrectly assumed you were doing both at once.
If you want both a link and further description, you can either put the link inline in a text post, or just post a link and put your extra information in a comment once it has been posted.
I appreciate that input, but there's no link (above) from the post title to the URL. My experience is that if if I paste in a link, the post title automatically populates and an image appears next to it with the link. I do accept that I may have inadvertently had two draft posts open at the same time. Interestingly, this was a cross post, and the filter bot had told me that this sub would not accept the post title.
I feel like you might be somewhat misunderstanding the point I am trying to make here. This is not meant as an attack, this is just coming from me having made this exact same mistake before because I was also confused at the distinction between text post and link post.
There are many link posts on /r/privacy , these include a link from the post title to the URL.
There are many text posts here too, these include a post title, and some formatted text as the post body.
Link posts can not and do not have user input text in a post body (like your post right here does). Text posts can not and do not have a link associated with them. These are both fundamental limitations of the reddit platform.
When submitting a new post on reddit there is a button saying "link" with "title", "url", & "choose a flair" fields, and a button right next to it saying "text" with "title", "text", & "choose a flair fields". The "link" & "text" buttons are fundamentally separate submission types, not different parts of a single post submission form. You have likely put in the link in the first one, then pressed the other button, assuming you were just providing extra information on the same submission, but you were actually starting a new submission entirely.
Like I already hinted to, this is the exact error I have made before myself, and took me a little bit to understand what happened. It is not explained all that well anywhere that I can see.
tl;dr: That there is no link associated with this post is intended behaviour of reddit, this is NOT an error.
Link?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-online-retailers-are-using-ai-to-adjust-prices-by-mining-your-personal-data
This is (kind of, partially) the reason for digitizing price signage at grocery stores. Some retail suppliers are testing the use of “microlocation” data by associating your mobile device to the groceries physically in your cart. “Oh, this person spent $2,800 last month at Target, so they can afford to pay 35 cents more for the asparagus they just put in their cart.”
Yes, PBSNewshour had an article on this in the last few months. We need to have digital guardrails.
Interesting…I wonder how they do this. Bluetooth? I imagine if you connect to the store’s WiFi, it’d be pretty easy for them to do, too.
Surge pricing and surveillance pricing are much worse alternatives to Luigi pricing
The article looks at the topic of AI surveillance through a US lens, but what kind of struck me is that there's no mention of EU data privacy rules. In recent trade negotiations, the Trump Administration has wanted to use data privacy issues as a bargaining chip, but EU officials and EU online culture in general are well aware of what what Google, Meta, etc, are after.
no wef, blackrock? if eu tries to do same, wed never know; they are neolibs after all; no solarpunk in this century, huh...
Did AI make this post? Why no link?
KYC.
one of aerolines did this when you checked ticked with (pc,) android (cheaper) or apple smartphone (pricier tickets)