On January 17, 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released the preliminary observations and findings from its ongoing study of surveillance pricing. According to the FTC, surveillance ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued orders for eight companies to provide information about surveillance pricing as it seeks to study the potential impacts such practices have on privacy ...

A new study from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is shedding light on "surveillance pricing," a growing practice in which online retailers "rapidly" adjust pricing based on the movements and ...

Major retailers can tailor prices based on customer data including location, demographics or shopping history, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in initial study findings, raising concerns abo… ...

Learn how surveillance pricing works. Skip to content. News Markets Companies Earnings CD Rates ... "FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized ...

FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing' that it says links cost to customer data The agency says the practice allows companies to charge different customers different prices. FTC Chairwoman ...

The FTC also has another study, outstanding since December 2020, looking into the privacy practices of social media and streaming companies. The agency is also expected to finally issue a report ...

The FTC voted 5-0 to authorize the study, though the agency’s two Republican commissioners disagreed with the term “surveillance pricing,” calling it “personalized pricing.” The products ...

The FTC study reveals that companies manipulate prices based on consumers' location, demographics, and shopping behaviors. This practice, termed 'surveillance pricing', involves tracking online ...

The FTC said its study aims to reveal the inner workings of personalized pricing, a way of varying prices down to the individual level that has long been the holy grail of marketing.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — In New York, the proposed Preventing Algorithmic Pricing Discrimination Act would hamstring programs that set unfair prices using personal data. Democratic Bronx ...