Can anyone explain why is the lawsuit against RealPage and not the landlords specifically? They are the ones hypothetically doing the price fixing.
Considering the following scenarios: * A landlord/tenant publishes their rent online: not price fixing. * A group of landlords/tenants publish their rents online: not price fixing. * A group of landlords share their rents privately: maybe price fixing? * A group of landlords share their rents to a 3rd party, which publicly shares aggregated data: doesn't look like price fixing to me. * A group of landlords share their rents to a 3rd party, which privately shares aggregated data: maybe price fixing? * A group of landlords share their rents to a 3rd party, which uses ML/AI to predict occupancy rates at a given price; and uses it to maximize expected profits to each individual: doesn't look like price fixing to me, maybe it is if we consider that it is using non-public data. * A group of landlords share their rents to a 3rd party, which uses reinforcement learning to dictate the best price to set, considering that the same policy will be shared with other landlords: price fixing.
Considering the difference between the two last scenarios, is the lawmaker going to evaluate how sophisticated is the algorithm behind the scenes?