Amazon has reached what the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling a “historic” $2.5 billion settlement over allegations ...
The settlement is one of the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, which sued Amazon two years ago.
A lawsuit against Amazon by the FTC moves forward with claims that Amazon tricks people into Prime subscriptions.
At the heart of the case is the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act, a 2010 law designed to ensure that people know what they’re being charged for online.
“Similarly, Prime’s cancellation flow, known internally as “Iliad,” is a labyrinthian mechanism that Defendants know deters consumers from cancelling or misleads consumers into believing they ...