Articles tagged “FTC”
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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.
Beyond making non-consensual intimate imagery a federal crime, the TAKE IT DOWN Act put a specific, enforceable clock on platforms: 48 hours to remove a valid report, or face FTC penalties. Here's exactly what qualifies a service as "covered," and what compliance actually looks like.
