Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion (€1.4bn) settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so.
The Seattle company will pay $1bn (€860mn) in civil penalties — the largest such fine in the agency’s history for a rule violation — and $1.5bn (€1.3bn) will be paid back to consumers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime, or were deterred from cancelling their subscriptions, the agency said on Thursday.
