AI, Pricing & Privacy
Topics
Everything on this site tracks back to six topics. On My Radar follows the news day by day and Patent Watch catalogs the filings; each page below gathers both for a single topic, so you can catch up on one issue in one place.
Surveillance & Algorithmic Pricing
How prices find you
Personalized, dynamic, and surveillance-based pricing, from the products and patents to the research and the laws now reining it in.
28 radar items·24 patents
Privacy & Data Rights
The data trail you leave
State privacy laws, data-broker rules, deletion rights, and the systems built to collect and profile consumer data.
20 radar items·4 patents
Behavioral Inference & Emotion AI
What the machines guess about you
Facial expression recognition, sentiment analysis, and the systems that infer or respond to your emotional state for commercial purposes.
8 patents
Agentic Commerce & Payments
When AI does the shopping
Autonomous shopping and payment agents, agentic checkout, and the protocols and trust questions underneath them.
17 radar items·2 patents
AI & Consumer Finance
AI and your money
AI advisors, robo-advisors, AI credit and banking, and the agentic tools that touch consumers' money.
12 radar items·1 patent
AI in Daily Life
Living with AI
The AI tools consumers actually meet in ordinary life, and how the public feels about being on the receiving end.
16 radar items·1 patent