Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery storesFrom the headline of this article at the Guardian.
上記の文で、surveillance pricingの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "surveillance pricing" mean?
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解答
意味：英辞郎にこの用語はまだ掲載されていないので、AIツールギャラリー の説明を引用します。
いま、AIを使って一人ひとりに異なる価格を表示する「監視プライシング（Surveillance Pricing）」が、米国を中心に広がっています。
購入履歴、閲覧行動、使っているブラウザやスマートフォンの機種、さらにはバッテリー残量まで分析し、「この人ならいくらまで払うか」をAIが算出して価格を変える仕組みです。
Answer
According to Epic.org:Surveillance pricing is the practice of collecting personal information about consumers and charging different prices to individual (or groups of) consumers for the same goods or services. The goal of surveillance pricing is to infer the highest price that the customer is willing to pay, based on consumers’ personal data and other market data.
Examples
- “Surveillance Pricing” Hurts Consumers, Incentivizes More Corporate Spying on Them
- There’s no doubt that at core, the kind of leverage that surveillance pricing enables is something that hurts ordinary people — especially those least able to afford it.
- The Federal Trade Commission’s initial findings from its surveillance pricing market study revealed that details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target individual consumers with different prices for the same goods and services.
- Have you ever shopped online for a flight, only to find that the price mysteriously increased the second time you checked? Or have you and a friend searched for the same hotel room on your phones, only to find your friend sees a lower price? This isn’t a glitch — it’s surveillance pricing at work.
- What makes surveillance pricing controversial isn’t just the price difference — it’s that you usually don’t know it’s happening. There’s rarely any disclosure or obvious way to compare your price with what others see.
