NY lawmakers vote to ban ‘surveillance pricing,’ but digital price tags survive ^22.9%

Gothamist - By Jon Campbell - 6/6/2026, 12:42 PM

Negativity Bias 21.3% - Appeal to Emotion 19.5% - Hasty Generalization 13.4%

Businesses would be prohibited from using personal data to tailor prices to individual customers in New York under a newly passed bill meant to crack down on a practice critics have called “surveillance pricing.” The state Assembly, however, declined to vote on companion legislation that would’ve also banned electronic price labels from... more