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Businesses can use your online data to overcharge you. What can customers do?

By Adrian Ma
Published August 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM EDT

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks to Sam Levine, former director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, now at UC Berkeley, about the use online data to charge some customers more for products and services.

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Adrian Ma
Adrian Ma covers work, money and other "business-ish" for NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator from Planet Money.
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