The report comes as federal and state legislators increasingly scrutinize potentially deceptive corporate pricing schemes, including algorithmic and “surveillance” technology. At the federal level, the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act, introduced by Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, aims to prohibit the use of personal data to set individualized... See more

If the Tech Right sees this fight as the inevitable march of progress, the Populist Right is writing an entirely different anthem. Nowhere is this more visible than in Tennessee, where Governor Bill Lee signed the ELVIS Act, a landmark law recognizing an artist’s voice and likeness as a protected property right, specifically to block unauthorized... See more

It feels as if Dieter Rams philosophy of good design is “invisible” has become perverted by Silicon Valley’s particular brand of surveillance capitalism—justification for the always-on observation, tracking, measuring, and predicting of every consumer behavior.