Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission has proposed exposing companies to federal charges if they secretly use personal data to vary prices based on what individual consumers are believed to be willing to pay. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said shoppers often expect listed prices to be the same for everyone, especially with markets and industries that have not used variable pricing in the past. In those cases, the FTC policy statement proposes that companies will need to clearly disclose the practice and the types of data used, and a company failing to do so...