In committee
Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act of 2025
This bill prohibits companies from using artificial intelligence and personal surveillance data to set customized prices for shoppers or determine pay and schedules for workers. Businesses may still offer standard group discounts, such as for students or loyalty club members, but they must publicly disclose how their pricing algorithms work and allow people to correct inaccurate information. Individuals and workers harmed by surveillance-based pricing or pay practices could sue the company directly in court for at least $3,000 per violation, and companies would be barred from forcing these claims into private arbitration.
People affected—Not determinable from the text provided; applies broadly across the U.S. consumer population and workforce.
Fiscal magnitude—no CBO estimate published
Reach80provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
What this bill touches.
Market protections+65Courts & liability+50Personal data & privacy+50Workplace standards+60AI & emerging tech+60
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- consumersGains protection against customized prices based on surveillance data, the right to correct data used for allowed discounts, a private right to sue violators for at least $3,000 per violation, and freedom from mandatory pre-dispute arbitration or class-action waivers (Sec. 2(a), (d)).
- workers and employeesGains protection against surveillance-based wage, task, or schedule setting, the right to inspect and challenge wage data, a private right of action for at least $3,000 per violation, and invalidation of mandatory arbitration and joint-action waivers (Sec. 3(a)-(c), (f)).
- labor unionsSecures a statutory guarantee of advance notice and mandatory bargaining from employers before automated decision systems can be used to set employee compensation, along with the right to negotiate stronger protections (Sec. 5).
Who it burdens
- businesses using automated pricing systemsFaces a ban on using automated systems and surveillance data to customize consumer prices, must publicly disclose pricing data procedures 180 days in advance for permitted discount programs, and is exposed to civil lawsuits and statutory damages (Sec. 2(a)-(d)).
- employersProhibited from using surveillance data or automated systems to determine worker compensation, tasks, or schedules (except basic cost-of-living/location data), must publicly post wage-setting procedures 180 days in advance, and faces lawsuits and damages from workers, state attorneys general, the EEOC, and the FTC (Sec. 3(a)-(f)).
- telecommunications common carriers and nonprofit entitiesBrought under the direct regulatory and enforcement authority of the Federal Trade Commission regarding surveillance-based pricing and wage-setting bans, notwithstanding traditional jurisdictional limits (Sec. 2(b)(3), Sec. 3(d)(3)).