Washington Privacy Organizers

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And if you're in Washington state, a couple of feeds for your pleasure: #ElectionDefense, with posts from voting rights orgs, elections officials, and other credible sources: Blacksky: blacksky.community/profile/did:... mu.social: mu.social/profile/did:... Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Across the state, folks have come out to call for a moratorium on the energy, water, job, & quality of life vampires called "data centers". “Silicon Valley’s motto is ‘Move fast and break things’ … and legislators are slow to catch up,” says @evansutton.bsky.social. Stop Big Tech bullying NOW.

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Walmart can send out as many letters walking back their use of surveillance pricing as they want. But it's not enough, @lindsayowens.bsky.social told @inc.com. If Walmart doesn’t intend to use the technology, it should stop collecting that data and withdraw its pending patent applications.

A federal judge in Manhattan blocked New York state from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law prohibiting landlords and real estate industry professionals from using algorithmic pricing tools to set, and potentially inflate, residential rents.

EPIC and consumer groups are urging the FTC to crack down on surveillance pricing, a practice in which companies charge different people different prices based on their personal data. Telling consumers it's happening isn't enough. The practice should be prohibited. epic.org/epic-and-con...

Big Tech IS shady. Resist, and send a message to officials and hopefuls by planning a data center moratorium action for October 4! We need YOU to fight for this world with us: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

NEW: We've urged the FTC to scrutinize the use of surveillance pricing as an unfair method of competition & take a closer look at AI pricing systems. 📩 Find our comment letter here: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Failed former councilmembers Sara Nelson + Tanya Woo + the lead for the Seattle chapter of neoliberals (“New Liberals”) + the government relations guy at PEMCO and Vulkan have joined forces to create an AI-generated spin site to aggregate pro-big-business, messaging against progressive city bills

There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>

COLUMN: Meta's new teen account limits may be easy to get around. Two Seattle students tell Di Zhang what the rules miss — and why teens should help shape them. Read here: soseaem.org/47dL49w #Seattle

Great news! Seattle is leading the way and is now the first city to ban surveillance pricing, which has let large grocery retailers track our personal data to set individualized prices.

Seattle has secured the country’s strongest ban on surveillance pricing, stopping grocers from using personal data to charge different prices for the same products.“My coworkers & the customers we serve proudly stood together to stop this scheme,”-Kristen Wilder, UFCW 3000. https://ow.ly/iBG950ZQL2T

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We did it!! Thanks to your advocacy and support, Seattle City Council just passed our historic legislation banning surveillance pricing on groceries with no corporate amendments.

A big win for a broad coalition, a bad day for big grocery chains and Big Tech! Seattle is the first city in the country to band surveillance pricing for groceries, and it's the first surveillance pricing ban to include a private right of action. thenexusofprivacy.net/a-big-win-fo...

Shout out to @alexis4seattle.bsky.social for holding it down in Seattle and passing policies that serve the people

Seattle is gonna mog of the hell out of Portland with their surveillance pricing ordinance because for some reason, electeds living in the so called bastion of progressivism Portland Oregon, cannot close loopholes that allow the price fixing Smdh

And that's it! The Seattle Fair Pricing and Transparency Ordinance passes 7-2, and surveillance pricing is now banned in Seattle!!!!!!

🚨 SEATTLE HAS BANNED SURVEILLANCE PRICING ON GROCERIES! Grocery workers led the way to win this groundbreaking protection against AI price hikes.