{"id":76584,"date":"2026-07-26T11:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/new-jersey-governor-signs-law-banning-surveillance-pricing-to-protect-shoppers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T11:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:57:47","slug":"new-jersey-governor-signs-law-banning-surveillance-pricing-to-protect-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/new-jersey-governor-signs-law-banning-surveillance-pricing-to-protect-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey governor signs law banning surveillance pricing to protect shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New law prohibits retailers from using personal data to<em> <\/em>charge different prices for identical products<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/governor\/news\/2026\/20260723a.shtml\">signed<\/a> a new law prohibiting businesses from using shoppers\u2019 personal information to charge different prices for identical products, making her state the third in the US to ban the practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Fair Price Protection Act passed by New Jersey\u2019s legislature seeks to protect consumers from surveillance pricing, in which retailers can use data including online activity, location and purchasing history to arbitrarily change prices for individual shoppers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/26\/new-jersey-surveillance-pricing-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New law prohibits retailers from using personal data to charge different prices for identical products New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill recently signed a new law prohibiting businesses from using shoppers\u2019 personal information to charge different prices for identical products, making her state the third in the US to ban the practice. The Fair Price Protection &#8230; <a title=\"New Jersey governor signs law banning surveillance pricing to protect shoppers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/new-jersey-governor-signs-law-banning-surveillance-pricing-to-protect-shoppers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Jersey governor signs law banning surveillance pricing to protect shoppers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}