San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

# Summary The Electronic Frontier Foundation urges San Francisco officials to support Assembly Bill 2654, which would ban "surveillance pricing"—a practice where companies charge different prices to different customers based on harvested personal data. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors stalled a vote on a resolution supporting the bill after industry pushback from the Chamber of Commerce, despite evidence from the FTC showing companies use personal information to charge consumers higher prices for everyday products.