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Official title: To prohibit certain uses of algorithmic decision systems to inform individualized prices and wages, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 23, 2025 by Greg Casar · Last progress July 23, 2025
The bill strengthens consumer and worker protections against surveillance-driven pricing and pay-setting (with transparency, correction rights, and stronger enforcement) at the cost of added compliance burdens, litigation exposure, and uneven impacts on businesses and some workers.
Workers (especially gig, freelance, low-income, and hourly employees) are protected from employers using surveillance-derived personal data to set pay: they get advance notice, the right to correct inaccurate data, and statutory remedies if harmed.
Consumers are shielded from individualized price discrimination based on surveillance data and gain required advance disclosures about automated pricing/eligibility practices.
Enforcement and remedies are strengthened: state attorneys general, federal agencies (EEOC, FTC), and private plaintiffs can seek injunctions, damages, and restitution, increasing deterrence against abusive algorithmic pricing and wage-setting.
Businesses — especially small and multi-state employers — face new compliance costs (system changes, disclosures, accuracy procedures, notice periods) that could increase prices, slow hiring, or strain small firms.
Expanded private rights and statutory damages, plus invalidation of some arbitration/class-waiver clauses, substantially increase litigation risk and legal costs for employers, nonprofits, and common carriers.
Firms that rely on individualized pricing, behavioral targeting, or tailored discounts may lose revenue or have to change business models, potentially reducing consumer discounts or targeted offers.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Bans surveillance-based individualized pricing and wage-setting, requires disclosures and accuracy safeguards, and authorizes FTC/EEOC and state enforcement.
Prohibits companies from using surveillance-driven individualized price setting and from using surveillance-based automated systems to set individual workers' wages. It requires firms to publish advance procedures, data-accuracy safeguards, and consumer/worker correction processes, and it creates disclosure requirements for data and automated decision-making used in pricing or wages. Enforcement is assigned to federal agencies (FTC for pricing and both FTC and EEOC for wages), with private and state attorney general remedies available; the bill preserves stronger state protections and collective bargaining rights and requires employers to bargain before adopting automated wage-setting systems where a unionized workplace exists.