An Act to Amend Title 6 of the Delaware Code Relating to Consumer Protection and Surveillance Based Pricing Discrimination.

This House Substitute for House Bill No. 453 prohibits surveillance-based price discrimination by forbidding the use of automated decision systems to set individualized consumer prices based on personal data, metadata, or proxy data, such as device identifiers and digital behavioral patterns, used to infer a consumer's socioeconomic status or urgency of purchase. While the Act establishes safe harbors for discounts based on lawful, objective criteria (e.g., military, student, or senior status), it ensures that rewards and loyalty programs are not used to circumvent these protections by requiring that such discounts remain uniform across membership and are not individualized through…