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The Federal Trade Commission's Latest Frivolous Antitrust Suit Takes Aim at Amazon

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Reason · Jun 22, 2023

Amazon sued over 'deceptive' Prime subscription tactics – here's what it means

Amazon has been sued by the FTC in the US for 'deceptive' tactics around Prime sign-ups and cancelations – here's why.

TechRadar · Jun 22, 2023

Prime reason to sue Amazon for catching customers in its web

A high profile lawsuit against e-commerce giant Amazon over so-called “dark patterns” will be familiar to regulators in Australia.

The New Daily · Jun 22, 2023

Amazon Sued by FTC for ‘Duping Millions of Customers’ Into Prime

The Federal Trade Commission says Amazon has used ‘manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs known as ‘dark patterns’ to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically-renewing Prime subscriptions’

Multichannel News · Jun 21, 2023

It Takes 6 Clicks To Cancel Amazon Prime and the FTC's New Lawsuit Says That's Too Many

The ideal number of clicks to cancel an online subscription may be four or five instead of six, but we don't need government to make that decision.

Reason · Jun 21, 2023

FTC sues Amazon for 'unfairly charging' consumers with Prime memberships

The FTC is suing Amazon over its confusing checkout experience which unfairly ropes consumers into a Prime membership without consent.

Android Central · Jun 21, 2023

FTC sues Amazon for 'tricking and trapping' people in Prime subscriptions

Federal regulators say Amazon uses manipulative techniques to enroll shoppers into Prime memberships that are purposefully hard to cancel.

WEKU · Jun 21, 2023

As FTC sues Amazon over Prime, Lina Khan says it 'tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent'

Khan noted that Amazon “revamped its Prime cancellation process for at least some subscribers shortly before the filing of this Complaint.”

Fortune · Jun 21, 2023

FTC accuses Amazon of enrolling consumers into Prime without consent and making it hard to cancel

The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon on Wednesday for what it called a years-long effort to enroll consumers without consent into its Prime program and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023

Sony says it would withhold PS6 information from Activision if the Microsoft deal goes through

Sony won't share new console with a studio owned by its rival

GamesRadar · Jun 21, 2023