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New York state law takes aim at personalized pricing (techcrunch.com)

submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Businesses that use personalized pricing are now required to tell customers, “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data."

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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thats nice, but it would have been nicer to just outlaw the practice entirely

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe -3 points 6 months ago

Nothing is going to get business to stop being business. It doesn’t matter what kind of fanciful mayor New York elect, it is always going to be the people with money making the plans and placating the people so that they can make more money. It is this until the end of time

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

And with the opacity of this pricing, how do we know that there isn't discrimination based on protected classes?