Surveillience pricing is a thing.

If you don’t know what surveillence pricing is, then you haven’t been paying attention.

It is when your digital habits are used against you to gouge you.

So, your IP address may give companies the idea to charge you more for a product.

Searching for a hotel twice online will give you a higher price for the same room.

If your cell phone battery is low, Uber and Lyft will see you as desperate, and charge you more for the ride.

Loyalty cards, past online shopping history, all those things will determine how much you get charged for a product.

It is a form of economic terrorism and prejudice.

But it can arguably go further, from your insurance claims to your credit score to your social media posts and scrolling habits.

Some people thing VPN blocking and clearing cookies is some sort of protection, but it isn’t because a lot of what you’ve done is already on the record, and while your location may be turned off, your phone still pings and can give you away.

The Washington Post used to be seen as the newspaper that would expose this kind of corruption from robber barons.

And now it freely partakes in the rot.