FTC, Surveillance and Consumer Data

FTC: Companies Are Using Your Data to Set Individualized Prices
The FTC report says that "Americans deserve to know how their private data is being used to set the prices they pay and whether firms are charging different people different prices for the same good or service.
FTC Says Consumer Data Is Behind ‘Surveillance’ Pricing
Major retailers can tailor prices based on customer data including location, demographics or shopping history, the US Federal Trade Commission said in initial study findings, raising concerns about the use of what they termed “surveillance pricing.
FTC Release: FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices
The agency details interim insights from staff perspective examining how companies track consumer behaviors to inform surveillance pricing The Federal Trade Commission's initial findings from its surveillance pricing market study revealed that details like a person's precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target individual consumers with different prices for the same goods and services.
FTC study finds intermediaries survey consumer habits to advise retailers on price
Third-party intermediaries are keeping close tabs on your location, browsing history, even on the unpurchased items in your online shopping cart to give retailers the data they need to charge consumers different prices for the same products.

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'Surveillance pricing' alert: FTC says retailers tracking users 'down to their mouse movements'
The watchdog agency's surveillance pricing study indicates that a wide range of consumer behaviors — including the items they ...
This property manager operating in Wisconsin is being sued by the FTC. What to know.
The FTC said property manager Greystar charged consumers hidden fees adding up to "hundreds of millions of dollars." ...
FTC's 'click to cancel' just kicked in, but unsubscribing may not get easier for months - here's why
The ruling, which went into effect this week, requires businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up for ...
FTC Takes On Deere & Co. In New Right-To-Repair Fight
The agency filed suit against Deere over its software repair tool, only available to authorized repair shops, which has led ...
FTC refers Snap complaint alleging its chatbot harms young users
In a rare move, the FTC issued a statement that revealed it referred a complaint against Snap to the DOJ, alleging that an AI ...
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Welsh Carson agrees to pare back anesthesia market power to avoid new FTC suit
Antitrust regulators have reached a deal with Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe that doesn’t penalize the private equity firm ...
How to stop robocalls on your flip phone
Flip phones are harder to block spam calls from, but it's not impossible. Kurt the "CyberGuy" explains how to stop incoming robocalls on your flip phone.
PBMs Under Fire Again, But Despite Bipartisan Pressure Reforms May Be Elusive
As Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, ends her tenure this week the FTC posted a second report in six months ...