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 ...

Surveillance pricing is the practice by which companies collect data about you to determine how to price their products and ...

Federal Trade Commission. "FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices." ...

"This study is such a critical first ... The use of AI to power surveillance pricing systems is a potential hurdle to the FTC's inquiry, observers say, because the systems' inner workings may ...

Because it could? This is known as surveillance pricing, and a recent study from the Federal Trade Commission suggests that it happens all the time. To back up for a moment: Last July, the FTC ...

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered information ... Accenture and McKinsey & Co. The agency says its “study” will aim to understand how surveillance pricing works and investigate ...

In a Tuesday announcement, the FTC said it was seeking to better understand the ''opaque market'' of ''surveillance pricing'' practices using consumer data — including credit information ...

Further evidence of potential consumer benefits comes from a study Dubé conducted ... who agreed that the FTC should keep an open mind in its approach to surveillance pricing.

Are you paying more than your neighbor for that backpack online? Consumer advocates say you can be, all because of something ...

Unlike ridesharing’s clear surge pricing, airline pricing remains opaque. While the FTC’s surveillance pricing investigation may lead to greater transparency, for now, travelers must stay alert.

“We all know our personal data is out there,” said Action 9 Investigator Jason Stoogenke. “But some companies use it to charge you more when you shop online.” “Sometimes I’ll go on ...

The Federal Trade Commission studied surveillance pricing. It released initial findings a few months ago and found some retailers track your “mouse movements on a webpage” and the “type of ...