NYC Council passes ban on 'surveillance pricing'

gnabgib

NY state did it in June https://gothamist.com/news/ny-lawmakers-vote-to-ban-surveill... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443192 ) The part of the headline you dropped ( that relies on personal data ) is the new part

steveBK123

So will this impact Uber that does some extremely shady stuff around your profile / phone type / battery life / account history / micro location / etc to tease out level of desperation & price elasticity.

lavendermon

Dynamic pricing seems to be a personalized form of price gouging. It's encouraging to see regulators jump on this quickly and try to nip it in the bud. I can't imagine working on a team that helps enable individual price gouging at a company.

iloveyoutwo

This is a good step. Ban facial recognition by the government on civilians and ban Flock and similar. But they aren't interested in limiting their own power.

quotemstr

Price controls are always and everywhere a net welfare negative because they interfere with the ability of the market to route resources to their best use.