Google made billions off "surveillance capitalism," where exhaust data was extracted from searches and sold as a predictor of behavior to advertisers. Kroger has discovered immense profit in "surveillance pricing," where personal information is collected in order to determine the highest price that you are willing to pay for individual products. New tools like electronic shelf labels (ESLs) and facial recognition widen the reach of surveillance pricing.
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Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton.
