Courts Back Algorithmic Pricing Disclosures

A federal judge dismissed the National Retail Federation’s First Amendment challenge to New York’s Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act. The law compels retailers to tell customers, in capital letters, when personal data and algorithms set prices, with $1,000 fines per violation. As the first ruling on a first‑in‑the‑nation statute, it tests whether AI transparency mandates survive free‑speech attacks. — This sets an early legal marker that compelled transparency for AI‑driven pricing can be constitutional, encouraging similar laws and framing future speech challenges.

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Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads

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Although focused on advertising rather than pricing, Vietnam’s mandated UI affordances and reporting channels map to the same governance logic: governments can compel how platforms present monetized, algorithmically mediated experiences to users (disclosure, opt‑outs, reporting), so advertising UX rules are a sibling to algorithmic‑pricing transparency efforts.

New York Now Requires Retailers To Tell You When AI Sets Your Price

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This article reports the exact policy and legal developments the idea described: New York’s algorithmic‑pricing disclosure (the required notice text), the National Retail Federation suit, and a federal judge allowing enforcement—plus industry responses (Uber) and spillover bills in other states.

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U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff’s order dismissing NRF’s lawsuit and leaving New York’s disclosure requirements in force.