cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/tech@feddit.online/p/2110072/new-york-city-council-approves-landmark-legislation-banning-surveillance-pricing
That makes three states and two major cities by my count.
2/3 of the US states will have some flavor of ban within the next year or two.
States shouldn’t even have to touch this. The national Congress needs to take this over and stomp it out. It’s a bipartisan issue every voter would get behind.
Next: EVERYWHERE ELSE
Wow, “landmark legislation banning surveillance pricing”. No idea what it means. I know the meanings of every word separately though…
Yeah, a bit weirdly phrased to me as well, but the first line of the article clears it up
Speaker Julie Menin’s legislation will prevent companies from using personal data to offer different prices to different New Yorkers
Isn’t that just price gouging?
Similar but no. Price gouging is using demand fluctuations to increase profit margins.
Surveillance pricing is more like targeted pricing based on what they think their profile of you would be willing to pay, squeezing the maximum profit by ensuring that the most people buy x product and at the highest price they’d be willing to.
It still allows mass gouging you cant be price gouged different than anyone else though. So stops price tags that would change by who’s near them.
Yes, that’s better. But titles are important. Why would I even click on the link if I don’t understand the title? “Draft prediction of isomorphic amino-acids transition schedules”.
I click on it because I don’t understand the title. It’s not even clickbait or exaggerated, just a bit oddly phrased. With the added context of that first sentence, the title also makes perfect sense.
It’s only oddly phrased if you aren’t used to headline style writing, aka headlinese
Literally a summary in the first sentence of the article.
Literacy really is on the decline, nowadays, isn’t it?
Sorry, I mean: You not read.
Landmark legislation is law that changes the legal landscape, aka: it’s a trendsetter or underpins important legislation.
Surveillance pricing is setting prices based on observations made of an individual, in the vast majority of cases through cookies and other online tracking.
So this is formative legislation which bans the use of individualized pricing based on a person’s habits or history.
Headlines just have a whole different linguistic standard. I think It’s a fun little cultural relic, but nowadays there’s no need to keep them as short as possible, as long as they’re under the character cutoffs most aggregators have for post titles.
