Privacy Incursions to Support Price Discrimination

An anonymous reader writes "BusinessWeek has an interesting interview with academic Andrew Odlyzko about how increased corporate spying will inevitably lead to targeted pricing and how this system can be abused." The paper (pdf) makes interesting reading. Very good insights into the reasons why businesses want to get to know you.

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[mao che minh]

It won't be long until browsing the web is like walking through the city in "Minority Report".

You stop by CNN.com, and a pop-up flashes on screen: "Hello, Mr Thompson, you look like you could use a bigger penis!"

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[Scalli0n]

So does this mean that all those people claiming that the software they steal isn't a loss because they wouldn't buy it anyway will get to buy it for $0.01? I mean, that's accurately priced for them...