{"id":212897,"date":"2026-03-10T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212897\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:34:08","slug":"california-lawmaker-targets-surveillance-pricing-by-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212897\/","title":{"rendered":"California Lawmaker Targets Surveillance Pricing by Retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California lawmaker is pushing to prohibit retailers from using certain consumer data to set prices, the latest effort by states to crack down on surveillance pricing.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblymember Chris Ward\u2019s legislation (<a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AB 2564<\/a>) would bar companies from setting a customized price for products based on electronic surveillance that can gather information on a consumer\u2019s behavior, location, or other personal attributes.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer advocates backing the bill contend the measure would curb a practice they say sticks consumers with higher bills, compounding frustrations over the rising cost of living in the Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of those issues that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California lawmaker is pushing to prohibit retailers from using certain consumer data to set prices, the latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,97791,12878],"class_list":["post-212897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-consumer-privacy","tag-variable-interest-entities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}