An FTC rule banning phony online reviews is now in effect. Those who violate the measures face a civil penalty of up to ...

[6] For example, a recent FTC staff report alleges that social media and streaming companies engaged in “vast surveillance” of users, collecting excessive amounts of personal data to fuel ad ...

Perhaps counterintuitively given Republicans’ laser focus on the US border, Project 2025 recommends abolishing the Department ...

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The FTC issued a final rule aimed at curtailing predatory subscription models. © Mandel Ngan/Getty Images Companies will soon have to make it as easy to cancel a ...

Last year, we wrote about the FTC’s proposal to massively expand the Negative Option Rule to cover any goods or services involving a negative option or automatic renewal plan, including free ...

"Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription," FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement following the announcement. "The FTC's rule will end these ...

"Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription," FTC Commission Chair Lina Khan said in a news release. "The FTC's rule will end these tricks and traps ...

Canceling the services has to be “at least as easy” as signing up, with no tricks or traps, the FTC said. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for the White House ...

The FTC received an average of 21 complaints per day about this issue in 2021, the agency has written. The number was 70 per day by 2024. The Biden administration began working on this policy in ...