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Privacy Incursions to Support Price Discrimination

Posted by michael on from the know-your-customer dept.

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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  1. Andrew Odlyzko by Ann+Coulter · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Odlyzko is a premere researcher in compution the zeros of the Zeta function. Here is his site.