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How Corporations Use Technology to Rip Off Consumers

Original: How Corporations Now Use Technology to Rip Us All Off

Zeteo, the media outlet founded by Mehdi Hasan, has published a piece arguing that corporations are increasingly using technology — from algorithmic pricing to data-driven tactics — to extract more money from consumers. The article frames digital tools as enabling new forms of corporate price-gouging, adding to ongoing public debate about surge pricing, personalized pricing and weak regulation of tech-driven business practices.

Why now: Concerns about algorithmic and personalized pricing keep fueling public anger at corporations and demand for regulation

ZeteoMehdi Hasan

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