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Ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ could threaten discounts, retailers warn (www.thestar.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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In its long-awaited artificial intelligence strategy released Thursday, the Carney government said it will “strengthen its privacy laws to ensure that Canadians’ personal information is not used inappropriately, including for surveillance pricing.” Government officials did not give further details or clarify when asked if that will be an outright ban on the practice.

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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Edit: had an archive.ph link to the non-paywall article, turns out we shouldn't use archive.today or any of it's affiliated links. They were behind a DDOS attack on Wikipedia, so I'm done with them, as everyone should be.

Now to find another paywall bypassing site!

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuckin figures. I knew that place was too good to be true. I'll delete the link and stop using them. Got a non-paywall link to the article, by any chance?

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

unfortunately not :(

try the extension at https://gitflic.ru/user/magnolia1234

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

not on wikipedia but on someone who published open-source intelligence on the site operator, and using visitor traffic, while also masquerading as some random person who sighted the operator a tiny bit and editing archives to keep the identity theft up