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Loyalty Was the Data Point
Same subscriber, same product, three prices in three years. An algorithm read her devotion and billed for it.
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TikTok Swore Off Your GPS. Now It Collects It.
Congress forced the fix. The fix removed the one protection TikTok actually offered users.
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The Rule That Only Works If Someone Sues
Federal law caps what Medicare pays for your prescription. Four pharmacy chains ignored it for nine years until a pharmacist sued.
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Samsung Wrote Down That It Wasn't Watching
It put the denial in its own privacy notice while the TV took two screenshots a second.
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Argentina Built the AI Law the US Couldn't Pass
OpenAI signed a $25B deal three weeks before the vote. Eight months later, the law arrived.
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Your $274 Copay. The $43 Vial.
A PBM exec called it drinking down the tasty rebates. The FTC has the quote, and two of three settled.
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MechaHitler's Maker Sued to Kill a Bias Law
The only statewide AI bias law in America is dead. The company that killed it had a bias record of its own.
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Oscar's Record Quarter and the Math Behind It
A third of denied-claim appeals win, and almost nobody files one. The insurers did that math first.
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ICE Got $75B. Here's What They Bought.
A 51-50 Senate vote funded a surveillance stack that doesn't ask for warrants. The receipts are public.