大数据杀熟

大數據殺熟
dàshùjùshāshú
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 big-data price discrimination (charging loyal/repeat customers more based on their usage data)

Examples

Dǎchē ruǎnjiàn bèi bào dàshùjùshāshú, lǎo yònghù fǎn'ér gèng guì.
Ride-hailing apps were exposed for big-data price discrimination: long-time users actually paid more.
Wǒ huáiyí zhè jiā OTA duì wǒ dàshùjùshāshúle.
I suspect this travel site is hitting me with big-data price discrimination.

Tips

culture
Became a major consumer-rights topic around 2018 after reports that Ctrip, Didi and Meituan were quoting different prices to different users for the same product. 杀熟 alone (cheating one's own acquaintances) is older slang; 大数据 updates it for the algorithmic age. Explicitly banned under China's 2022 Personal Information Protection Law.
usage
Use as a verb phrase: 平台大数据杀熟 'the platform does big-data price discrimination'. The here is figurative ('to fleece'), not literal 'kill'.

Stroke Order

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