A San Diego assemblyman introduced a bill to outlaw discriminatory pricing that’s based on how you purchase items online and what merchants think you’re willing to pay.
    • dance_ninja@lemmy.world
      81·
      2 days ago

      True, but California is a big market. Odds are the companies will comply and some will be too lazy to create alternate rules for other states.

      • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
        6·
        2 days ago

        They already have the code to determine where you’re from and to treat you differently based on that. That’s what the bill is about. No laziness needed for the people already implementing this for profit.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 days ago

    Why don’t we take it a step further and outlaw surveillance in general? Make it illegal to store any information that’s not strictly required to operate the service, prohibit selling of customer information, require secure storage of customer information, and require complete transparency of what is stored and why. And then have real consequences for Vang breaking the law.