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Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 6 days ago

CA could ban use of consumer location data to set prices (Should Lyft and Uber charge more if your battery is low? California may soon ban that)

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CA could ban use of consumer location data to set prices (Should Lyft and Uber charge more if your battery is low? California may soon ban that)

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Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 6 days ago
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CA could ban use of consumer location data to set prices – The Markup
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A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user is to set prices.
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    Lyft and Uber shouldn’t charge more if the phone’s battery is low. But so many people have portable chargers, so low battery doesn’t necessarily mean desperation.

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      Phone operating systems shouldn’t be providing that data to apps wtaf

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        That was my first thought

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          Phone OS sandboxes in general are just awful. Result of a duopoly I guess

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