By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026All this - rampant, desperation-based price-gouging; federal inaction; a risk to the whole economy - is the backdrop for Maryland's new anti-surveillance pricing bill, which Governor Wes Moore has been trumpeting as the nation's first state bill banning surveillance pricing. 30/ 1151
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026This would be very cool - if it was real. 31/ 1140
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026But - as the American Economic Liberties Project's Pat Garofalo writes - the Protection Against Predatory Pricing Act is so badly drafted that it will have essentially *no* impact on surveillance pricing. It's positively *riddled* with loopholes: economicpopulist.substack.com/p/gov-wes-mo... 32/economicpopulist.substack.comGov. Wes Moore Claims Maryland Banned Surveillance Pricing for Groceries. It Didn't.The new law is riddled with loopholes, exemptions, and other problems. 1170