A new study from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is shedding light on "surveillance pricing," a growing practice in which ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued orders for eight companies to provide information about surveillance pricing as it seeks to study the potential impacts such practices have on privacy ...

The FTC said its study aims to reveal the inner workings ... businesses are using detailed consumer data to deploy surveillance pricing, and the FTC’s inquiry will shed light on this shadowy ...

The practice — which the Federal Trade Commission calls "surveillance pricing" and which is also known as dynamic pricing or price optimization — has long been used by retailers such as Amazon ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday announced that it launched a probe of eight companies that offer "surveillance pricing" tools that use artificial intelligence (AI) and other ...

The Federal Trade Commission is launching an investigation into so-called “surveillance pricing,” seeking more ... it to collect information for study without a specific law enforcement ...

the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in initial study findings, raising concerns about the use of what they termed “surveillance pricing.” The FTC found that as many as 250 different ...

“Surveillance pricing” is the FTC’s term for the emerging retail and ecommerce practice ... that makes the privacy concerns quite real. I hope the study helps connect the dots between how much data is ...

The FTC says it intends to study “the middlemen enabling firms ... a practice that is increasingly popular despite consumer pushback, surveillance pricing may result in different customers ...

The FTC said its study aims to reveal the inner workings of personalized pricing, a way of varying prices down to the individual level that has long been the holy grail of marketing. The ...