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FTC demands Walmart, Target Uber and others hand over data on personalized pricing
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Walmart → demand → pricing
The Federal Trade Commission is demanding information from Walmart, Uber and seven other companies on whether and how they use consumers’ personal data such as location, browsing history and income to set individual prices, wages and job offers, a senior FTC official said Wednesday.
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official → demand → prices
The FTC is flexing its consumer protection powers ahead of the congressional elections next week, as voters consistently rank the cost of living as the most important issue.
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voters → flex → issue
Target, along with app services Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart, and airlines Delta, United, JetBlue, are also receiving demands, the official said.
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official → receive → demands
The FTC will use the information to eventually publish a study to help inform regulators and lawmakers about personalized pricing and wage setting practices.
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FTC → use → pricing
The advance of algorithmic pricing technology, including tools that incorporate AI, has fueled concern that companies are able to set prices for shoppers on an individual basis in order to extract the maximum price each shopper would be willing to pay.
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shopper → include → price
Personalized pricing strategies are difficult to observe from the outside, because they serve different prices to different people.
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they → observe → people
The FTC study aims to fill in that knowledge gap, demanding comprehensive information about the tools, strategies, and data companies use as well as how they affect prices, wages and job offers.
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they → aim → prices
Efforts by state lawmakers to ban personalized pricing, along with the use of algorithms to individually tailor wages, have taken off in recent years.
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Efforts → ban → years
The National Retail Federation has criticized the laws and defended retailers’ use of data-driven discounts as a means of incentivizing loyalty.
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Federation → criticize → loyalty
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson has said personalizing pricing could violate consumer protection laws where consumers do not expect it and that companies should expect enforcement.
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companies → say → enforcement
After the FTC called for public comment, hundreds of commenters urged the FTC to ban the practice outright.
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hundreds → call → practice
The FTC has said it does not have the authority to issue a blanket prohibition against the practice.
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it → say → practice
JetBlue said it doesn’t use personal information or web browsing history to set individual pricing.
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it → say → pricing
Fares are determined by demand and seat availability, and all customers have access to the same fares on jetblue.com and our mobile app.
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customers → determine → jetblue.com
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