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surveillance pricing

surveillance pricing noun: a form of price discrimination where customers are charged different amounts for a product or service based on their personal data, such as demographics or shopping history.

Noun

surveillance pricing (uncountable)

  1. A form of price discrimination where customers are charged different amounts for a product or service based on their personal data, such as demographics or shopping history.
    • The federal NDP introduced a motion on Wednesday to ban what's known as surveillance pricing, where businesses offer different prices based on consumers' personal data.2026 April 15, Nora Young, “Are you paying more than your neighbour? It could be 'surveillance pricing'”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 04 May 2026

Questions about surveillance pricing

What does surveillance pricing mean?
Surveillance pricing means a form of price discrimination where customers are charged different amounts for a product or service based on their personal data, such as demographics or shopping history.
What part of speech is surveillance pricing?
Surveillance pricing is a noun.

Words near surveillance pricing in the dictionary

  1. surveillance
  2. surveillance approach
  3. surveillance camera
  4. surveillance cameras
  5. surveillance capitalism
  6. surveillance pricing
  7. surveillances
  8. surveillant
  9. surveillants
  10. surveille
  11. surveilled

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