Google is disputing claims that its new AI-powered shopping checkout work could enable what critics describe as “surveillance pricing” or other forms of overcharging.
The back-and-forth started after Lindsay Owens, executive director of consumer economics think tank Groundwork Collaborative, criticized Google’s newly announced Universal Commerce Protocol and pointed to language in its public roadmap about “cross-sell and upsell modules.”
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren amplified the criticism, saying Google is “using troves of your data to…

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