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Advocates press for state ban on algorithmic rent‑setting, citing DOJ cases and local harms
Summary
Civil‑liberties groups, antitrust experts and tenants urged the committee to ban algorithmic rent‑fixing; witnesses cited DOJ litigation involving RealPage and urged state legislation to supplement slow federal antitrust enforcement.
Researchers, consumer advocates, civil‑liberties groups and tenants described algorithmic rent‑setting software as a driver of upward price pressure across rental markets and asked the legislature to act quickly to prohibit coordination via pricing algorithms.
Witnesses cited the Department of Justice’s antitrust litigation as evidence that some large property managers shared sensitive non‑public data with third‑party vendors whose…
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