Say No to Price Discrimination: Decentralized and Automated Incentives for Price Auditing in Ride-Hailing Services

As the most successful application of sharing economy, ride-hailing service is popular worldwide and serves millions users per day worldwide. Ride-hailing providers (SPs) usually collect users’ personal data to improve their services via big technologies. However, SPs may also use collected user apply personalized prices different users, which raises price fairness concerns. In this paper, we propose a smart auditing system named Spas. Spas allows purchase Fair Price Insurance in form xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Price Auditing Contract , then (RHS) order will be audited automatically once completed. According result, contract punishes misbehaving compensates affected automatically. By replacing an untrustworthy centralized auditor with carefully designed contracts, construct decentralized trustworthy transparent. We demonstrate theoretical model for practical payment flows based on real RHS implement Hyperledger Fabric show that decentralizing automating financial incentives technically feasible.