Proposed legislation would make it illegal for landlords to use software that analyzes market data to set rental prices. Trenton, NJ – A new bill introduced in the New Jersey Senate aims to crack down ...

AB 325, which amends California’s state antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, went into effect on January 1, 2026. The amendments are significant because they create a new basis for liability for parties ...

California, New York, and Connecticut now restrict algorithmic price-fixing, broadening antitrust enforcement beyond federal law. Each state’s law varies, with California covering all industries and ...

Algorithms that set prices for vending machines, apartment rents, and hotel rooms are drawing federal antitrust scrutiny as regulators argue these systems can function like old-fashioned cartels, even ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

RealPage Inc. agrees to a major settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations that its rent-pricing software facilitated illegal “algorithmic collusion” among landlords.

The bill defines "personalized algorithmic pricing" as dynamic pricing set by an algorithm that relies on personal data, and it casts a wide net around what counts as personal data. Under the text, ...

How dynamic pricing algorithms use consumer data to personalize prices, raising questions about data ownership, regulation, ...