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Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing

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Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing

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bot@lemmy.smeargle.fansMB to Hacker News@lemmy.smeargle.fans · 1 year ago
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Landlords and property managers can’t collude on rental pricing. Using new technology to do it doesn’t change that antitrust fundamental. Regardless of the industry you’re in, if your business uses an algorithm to determine prices, a brief filed by the FTC and the Department of Justice offers a helpful guideline for antitrust compliance: your algorithm can’t do anything that would be illegal if done by a real person.

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