WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing entitled "Your Data, Their Profit: The Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pricing." Today's hearing examined how companies can use consumers' personal data to set a personalized price for individual customers by estimating how much or how little they are willing to pay for a product.
Durbin began his questioning by asking Hillary Caron, policy counsel at the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), about the Norwegian government's cra...