(TNS) — Spokane will likely join the growing list of cities across the country to ban the use of algorithmic software that recommends rent hikes based on shared private rental data, which City Council sponsors have called “collusion” that can “artificially inflate rental prices.”
A vote is scheduled for Monday.
Seattle approved a similar ban in July, joining other major cities like San Francisco, Philadelphia and Minneapolis amid mounting concerns and lawsuits alleging that artificial intelligence algorithms are used by groups of landlords to raise rents without fear of being undercut by their competitors…