The agency said it cannot ban personalized pricing under its current authority, but it will pursue enforcement action against companies that fail to meet its disclosure requirements.
I didn’t get that it’s hiding anything. says it right there in the blurb:
The agency said it cannot ban personalized pricing under its current authority, but it will pursue enforcement action against companies that fail to meet its disclosure requirements.
Unless I’m missing something, I understood that to mean exactly what you said.
They are going to “enforce” disclosure rules but not enforce to prevent the substantive harms of surveillance pricing. It’s framed (and many stories and readers and commenters run with the narrative) that it’s a restriction, when it’s actually a permission. This means that unlike the direction Lina Khan’s FTC was taking to prevent surveillance pricing, it is saying to companies, “It’s fine to surveillance price as long as you disclose.” Meaning, open season.
It’s the difference between, for example, enforcing actual net neutrality versus enforcing “disclosure” about violating net neutrality.
I didn’t get that it’s hiding anything. says it right there in the blurb:
Unless I’m missing something, I understood that to mean exactly what you said.
They are going to “enforce” disclosure rules but not enforce to prevent the substantive harms of surveillance pricing. It’s framed (and many stories and readers and commenters run with the narrative) that it’s a restriction, when it’s actually a permission. This means that unlike the direction Lina Khan’s FTC was taking to prevent surveillance pricing, it is saying to companies, “It’s fine to surveillance price as long as you disclose.” Meaning, open season.
It’s the difference between, for example, enforcing actual net neutrality versus enforcing “disclosure” about violating net neutrality.
It’s even right in the dek: Businesses must disclose if they use consumer data to set individual prices.
Did they even read the article?