Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting

IG_Semmelweiss

seems incomplete. There's no point in banning anything, if anyone can just do something banned, flout the law, with no consequences. and -at least in this article- the consequences seem noticeably missing EDIT: Althought the article does not include it, the bill (linked from the article) does.

jrochkind1

> Republican Rep. Chris Richardson, an Elbert County Republican, argued that the bill is too broad and could regulate standard analytic usage in the workplace, such as a human resources software that recommends a pay band for employees based on performance. He does not think this is is just selling it further? Oh no, it might prohibit software automatically determining my wages, how could we even have a society if we don't let computers figure out the least they can pay me without me quitting.

Sephr

Going to be interesting to see how this affects Uber prices in Colorado. afaict Uber heavily engages in surveillance pricing but claims otherwise, deferring to 'discount' terminology.

danny_codes

Very good news. Capitalism is going off the rails and needs to be heavily reigned in.

throwaway85825

It would be better to just mandate disclosure of the algorithms and data for all prices determined by algorithm.