A federal appeals court has put a stop to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new rule that would have made it easier for ...

Picking up where the FTC left off, lawmakers announced the Click to Cancel Act, which requires companies to "provide a simple ...

The new bill would write the FTC’s stalled “Negative Option” rule directly into federal law, bypassing regulatory hurdles.

The FTC's attempts to make subscriptions easy to cancel were thrown out at the last minute. Lawmakers are trying to put them back in, but face an uphill battle.

The collapse of the click-to-cancel rule underscores a harsh reality: the burden of avoiding subscription traps now falls squarely on consumers. With federal protections stalled, state laws and ...

Subscription-based business models have become increasingly popular in recent years. According to a 2024 Bango survey of 5,000 U.S. subscribers, the average subscriber has 4.5 ...

On July 8, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) “Click to Cancel” Rule.

The FTC's attempts to make subscriptions easy to cancel were thrown out at the last minute. Lawmakers are trying to put them back in, but face an uphill battle.

A federal appeals court has blocked enforcement of a Federal Trade Commission rule that prohibited companies from making it harder for consumers to cancel.

The FTC is currently moving forward with preparations for a trial that accuses Amazon of enrolling consumers in its Prime program without their consent and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions.

Lawmakers are once again pushing to enact the Click-to-Cancel Consumer Protection Act, aiming to resurrect the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) previously halted. This comes just weeks after a federal ...