Privacy Daily: Eyes on FTC as Agency Recommits to Reviewing Personalized Pricing
The FTC has recommitted to examining personalized pricing practices, prompting advocacy groups EPIC and the Consumer Federation of America to publish a detailed pamphlet defining surveillance pricing and laying out why they oppose it.
Why this matters: Personalized pricing means the price you see is built from data about you — your location, your browsing, your income signals, your habits. That is a different thing from a sale or a coupon. It is the store knowing more about you than you know about the store, and using that to charge you more. The FTC paying attention to this is meaningful. Whether attention turns into rules is the part worth watching.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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