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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 ...
Picking up where the FTC left off, lawmakers announced the Click to Cancel Act, which requires companies to "provide a simple ...
An appeals court has struck down the Federal Trade Commission's "click-to-cancel" rule requiring businesses to make it as easy for consumers to cancel subscriptions as it was to sign up, citing ...
On July 8, 2025, the Eighth Circuit struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Negative Option Rule (often described as the “Click-to-Cancel Rule”), which was due to come into full ...
In October 2024, the FTC approved publication of the rule in a 3–2 vote. Current FTC Commissioners Melissa Holyoak and now-Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson voted against the rule. Challenges to the rule ...
A court just blocked a nationwide “click to cancel” subscription rule, but you still have legal protections against deceptive subscription traps.
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.
Under the so-called "click-to-cancel" rule, if customers decide to enroll in a subscription online or through an app in one step -- they should be able to cancel that way, too.
A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have made it easier for consumers to end unwanted subscriptions, has been blocked by a federal appeals court days before it was set to go into effect. But there ...
The FTC said that it did not have to come up with a preliminary regulatory analysis because it initially determined that the rule’s impact on the national economy would be less than $100 million.
The FTC said that it did not have to come up with a preliminary regulatory analysis because it initially determined that the rule’s impact on the national economy would be less than $100 million.