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FTC, Surveillance and Consumer Data

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.

MarketWatch · 2d

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.

Seeking Alpha on MSN · 2d

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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Fed’s Daly Talks Interest Rates, Inflation, Economic Uncertainties on Bloomberg Surveillance

“Now I feel we’ve got that recalibration phase behind us, and we’re in the next phase. The next phase is really looking at the incoming information. We can return to a more typical pattern of ...

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