Virginia Rep. Eugene Vindman, D-7th, has introduced legislation in Congress to stop big grocery stores and online shopping services from charging prices for groceries that depend on who’s buying them.
Vindman’s legislation, the “No Personal Data in Grocery Pricing Act,” would block big grocery chains and online services from using “surveillance pricing,” or collecting personal consumer information through advancing technologies to calculate how much a shopper would be willing or able to pay for an item.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
