Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (pluralistic.net)

The article argues that so-called “personalized pricing” is really “surveillance pricing,” where companies use data about individuals to set different prices—potentially including wages—based on predicted willingness to accept less pay. It describes “algorithmic wage discrimination” as a growing practice in sectors like ride-hailing, nursing staffing, and retail, citing how external data brokers and surveillance tools can depress wages by targeting people’s financial precarity. The author also claims weak privacy and competition enforcement has enabled the practice, and points to emerging state efforts to restrict it, such as disclosure and proposed bans.