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"The FTC's rule will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money. Nobody should be stuck paying for a service they no longer want." FTC commissioners passed the final rule on a 3-2 ...
MORE: FTC ban on worker noncompete agreements blocked by federal judge. Under the so-called "click-to-cancel" rule, if customers decide to enroll in a subscription online or through an app in one ...
FTC ‘click to cancel’ rule faces legal challenges. Industry and trade groups say “click to cancel” places too many burdens on businesses, and they are suing to block the FTC from enforcing it.
Most of the provisions take effect effect 180 days after the rule is published in the Federal Register, the agency said. “Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement. “The FTC’s rule will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission adopted a final rule on Wednesday requiring businesses to make it as easy to cancel subscriptions and memberships as it is to sign up, in the agency's last major ...
In October 2023, the FTC proposed a new rule that would ensure that the cancellation process of subscription services is as easy as the process of signing up. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] On October 16, 2024, the FTC announced the new rule, dubbed "click to cancel", requiring companies to make subscription services "as easy for consumers to cancel their ...
In the UK the law which applies is The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 (2000 No. 2334), [11] specifically section 24 Inertia Selling. (This effectively replaces the repealed s.1 of the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act (1971, as amended). [ 12 ] )
After the passage of the act, the Federal Trade Commission is required to (1) define and prohibit deceptive telemarketing practices; (2) keep telemarketers from practices a reasonable consumer would see as being coercive or invasions of privacy; (3) set restrictions on the time of day and night that unsolicited calls can be made to consumers ...