Appeals court voids FTC's 'click to cancel' rule
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A US court scrapped a rule requiring a simple method for canceling recurring payments. Experts are hopeful regulators will revisit the issue and ease consumers' rage over “subscription traps.”
A federal appeals court’s nullification of a Federal Trade Commission rule requiring businesses make automatically renewing subscriptions as easy to cancel as they were to sign up for isn’t the death knell for enforcement actions,
The Federal Trade Commission's plan to protect consumers from harmful subscription practices with "click-to-cancel" policy has failed.
Attorney General James urges New Yorkers to use the new Click-to-Cancel Rule to easily cancel subscriptions without obstacles starting July 14.
Under the FTC's "Click to Cancel" rule, businesses would've had make it as easy to cancel subscriptions as it is to sign up. An appeals court has now struck that measure down.
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