No Personal Data in Grocery Pricing Act
Key claim: A House bill would ban grocery stores from using shoppers’ personal data to set prices, and has been referred to the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Abstract
(HR10905 · 119th Congress) Latest action (2026-10-22): Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Why this matters
Surveillance pricing — where retailers use personal data to set individualized prices — is an emerging data-use practice that current federal privacy law does not clearly address. A targeted ban in the grocery context would carve out a narrow category of personalized pricing as off-limits, signaling how Congress may begin regulating data-driven price discrimination. As introduced, the bill has no legal effect and only marks an early position in that debate.