Could your face change what you pay? NYC wants limits on biometric tracking

New York City lawmakers are considering bills to ban biometric recognition (such as facial and voice recognition) by businesses and landlords, arguing that biometrics create persistent identifiers that are hard to erase, are prone to bias and inaccuracy, undermine meaningful consent, produce chilling effects, and enable "surveillance pricing" where customers could be charged different prices based on profiling; the article advocates legal enforcement and consumer choices as remedies and is published by Malwarebytes.