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Consumers have grown accustomed to a hyper-individualized shopping landscape in which personalized advertisements and custom ...
“The FTC should continue to investigate surveillance pricing practices because Americans deserve to know how their private data is being used to set the prices they pay and whether firms are ...
A new bill aims to stop 'surveillance pricing,' which leverages AI to charge customers different prices based on their personal data.
Lawmakers this week unveiled a bill that would prohibit companies from engaging in so-called "surveillance pricing," broadly defined as using artificial intelligence to set a customized price for ...
Perhaps notably, Republican FTC commissioners voted against releasing the report outlining potential concerns with AI surveillance pricing and wage setting.
“Surveillance pricing” — adjusted to what an individual customer is likely to pay — drew inquiries from the Biden administration. Now companies may feel emboldened to lean in.
The Federal Trade Commission is considering a petition to vacate its 2021 order banning a spyware company and its leader from any surveillance-related business after it allegedly harvested user ...
The spyware maker was banned from the surveillance industry in 2021, but was caught flouting the ban less than a year later. Now the founder wants the ban lifted altogether.
LOS ANGELES, July 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- California's bill regulating surveillance pricing, AB 446 (Ward), moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee after passing the Senate Judiciary ...
Delta Airlines is facing criticism for its use of artificial intelligence to determine ticket prices, a practice known as surveillance pricing.
Congressman Gregorio "Greg" Casar, a Democrat from Texas, recently announced that he wants to work towards banning surveillance pricing at a federal level. To do so, he introduced the Stop AI ...
The "Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act of 2025" would prohibit companies from using artificial intelligence to set prices based on consumers' personal information.