{"id":796342,"date":"2026-05-14T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796342\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:55:18","slug":"nyc-council-moves-to-block-predatory-surveillance-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796342\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council moves to block ‘predatory’ surveillance pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"

City Council wants to keep the price right.<\/p>\n

New York City could become the first city in the nation to block \u201cpredatory\u201d high\u2011tech pricing tactics that silently raise costs for shoppers.<\/a><\/p>\n

Council Speaker Julie Menin and Majority Leader Shaun Abreu have introduced two bills to limit \u201cdynamic pricing\u201d \u2014 where grocery prices change frequently based on algorithms \u2014 and ban \u201csurveillance pricing\u201d<\/a> \u2014 where businesses use personal data to set different prices for different customers.<\/p>\n

\"NewCity Council Speaker Julie Menin speaking at a City Hall press conference on May 14, 2026. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

Menin argued that companies should not be allowed to quietly manipulate prices in the middle of an affordability crisis that is already pushing New Yorkers\u2019 bank accounts to the brink.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers deserve transparency and fairness when purchasing essential goods, and the Council will make New York the first city in the country to take a strong stand against predatory surveillance and exploitative dynamic pricing practices,\u201d Menin said.<\/p>\n

Menin\u2019s bill would make it illegal for most businesses to charge different prices to different people based on personal data.<\/p>\n

That means a store could not look at a shopper\u2019s location, browsing history or past purchases and secretly give them a higher price than someone else for the same item.<\/p>\n

The proposal still allows discounts for certain groups like seniors, students or low income customers, as long as the rules are made clear to everyone.<\/p>\n

\"NewMenin and Majority Leader Shaun Abreu (far right) introduced two Council bills to limit \u201cdynamic\u201d and \u201csurveillance\u201d pricing. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

A second bill, sponsored by Abreu, would bar grocery stores from raising the price of an item more than once in a 24 hour period.<\/p>\n

The goal is to respond to the spread of electronic shelf labels powered by algorithms that can change prices many times a day.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGroceries are already expensive enough, and nobody should have to worry about the price going up when they\u2019re still shopping,\u201d Abreu said.<\/p>\n

Both bills are framed as early steps to protect consumers before these technologies become more widespread.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorporations have algorithms and AI. Shoppers have a cart and a budget,\u201d Abreu said. \u201cWe are acting now to protect New Yorkers before the technology gets ahead of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Council wants to keep the price right. New York City could become the first city in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":796343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5310,175377,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,22269,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-796342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-julie-menin","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-surveillance","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116574220709464119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}