NYC Council passes ban on 'surveillance pricing'

NY state did it in June https://gothamist.com/news/ny-lawmakers-vote-to-ban-surveill... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443192)

The part of the headline you dropped (that relies on personal data) is the new part

So will this impact Uber that does some extremely shady stuff around your profile / phone type / battery life / account history / micro location / etc to tease out level of desperation & price elasticity.

This is a good step.

Ban facial recognition by the government on civilians and ban Flock and similar. But they aren't interested in limiting their own power.

Price controls are always and everywhere a net welfare negative because they interfere with the ability of the market to route resources to their best use.

Dynamic pricing seems to be a personalized form of price gouging. It's encouraging to see regulators jump on this quickly and try to nip it in the bud. I can't imagine working on a team that helps enable individual price gouging at a company.