Articles tagged “Consumer Protection”
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Days before it was set to take effect, a federal appeals court struck down the FTC's rule requiring subscriptions to be as easy to cancel as they are to start — not because judges disagreed with the idea, but over how the FTC wrote the rule in the first place.
The FTC's $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon over Prime enrollment and cancellation is the largest dark-patterns case in the agency's history — and it's a useful case study in exactly which manipulative design choices actually cross the line into illegal.
A game's ESRB rating in the US is enforced entirely through voluntary industry cooperation, with no law requiring it. Cross the Atlantic, and some countries treat the equivalent PEGI rating as actual, legally binding age classification. Same idea, very different teeth.
