Judge dismisses retailing group's challenge to New York surveillance pricing law

NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the National Retail Federation challenging the constitutionality of a New York state law requiring retailers to tell customers when their personal data are used to set prices, known as surveillance pricing.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said the world's largest retail trade group did not plausibly allege that New York's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act violated its members' First Amendment free speech rights.