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International Business Times
International Business Times

Amazon Hit With Largest-Ever FTC Civil Penalty in Prime Case

In this photograph taken on November 18, 2020 in Lille, a person poses with a smartphone showing an Amazon logo, in front of a computer screen displaying the home page of Amazon France sales website.

Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a major case with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), marking the largest civil penalty in the agency's history related to consumer subscription practices.

The FTC accused the tech giant of misleading millions of customers into signing up for its Prime membership, then making it too hard for them to cancel.

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