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Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition
Every time you step into a grocery store, you step into a machinery of data that tracks, analyzes, shares, and influences your shopping behavior. Based on shopping history and data shared from data brokers—including internet browsing history and online purchases—grocery stores may infer your age, gender, race, economic status, family makeup, health conditions, or other lifestyle characteristics.
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Risks and Risk Assessments: A Look at California’s Proposed AI & Privacy Regulations
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The State Data Privacy Act
In our State Data Privacy Act, published with Consumer Reports, we set forth a compromise bill built on existing state laws that meaningfully protects privacy while encouraging innovation.

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