FTC's click-to-cancel rule enforcement is delayed! ⏳ Businesses, now's the time to prep your subscription practices. Simplify cancellations & ensure transparency. SoftSasi can help with compliance! ✅ #SubscriptionManagement #FTC #ClickToCancel
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The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule
https://www.theverge.com/news/664730/ftc-delay-click-to-cancel-rule
#HackerNews #FTC #clicktocancel #rule #delay #news #regulation #tech
🚨 The FTC’s Click-to-Cancel rule goes live May 14!
If your cancellation system isn’t compliant, you’re risking serious penalties.
I just posted the replay of the #ClarityTrip™ training on YouTube.
In it, we break down the rule, audit real systems, and share actionable ways to rebuild your cancellation process.
🛠️ Links to the video and $47 Resource Kit are in this thread.
Let’s build with clarity!
ZDNet: FTC’s ‘click to cancel’ just kicked in, but unsubscribing may not get easier just yet – here’s why. “The FTC’s final ‘click-to-cancel’ ruling went into effect this week, on January 15. This means businesses — including streaming services, cable TV, home shopping platforms, and gyms — must make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up. However, businesses have until May 15, […]
FTC finalizes "Click to Cancel" rule to protect consumers from deceptive subscription practices: New Federal Trade Commission rule aims to make subscriptions easier to cancel and crack down on unfair negative option marketing. https://ppc.land/ftc-finalizes-click-to-cancel-rule-to-protect-consumers-from-deceptive-subscription-practices/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #FTC #ConsumerProtection #ClickToCancel #SubscriptionServices #DeceptiveMarketing
Industry groups challenge FTC's landmark "Click to Cancel" rule: Major trade associations file lawsuit against Federal Trade Commission's comprehensive rule requiring simple cancellation methods for subscription services. https://ppc.land/industry-groups-challenge-ftcs-landmark-click-to-cancel-rule/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClickToCancel #FTC #SubscriptionServices #ConsumerRights #TradeAssociations
Judge rules SiriusXM’s annoying cancellation process is illegal
A New York judge has determined that SiriusXM’s “long and burdensome” cancellation process is illegal. In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Lyle Frank found SiriusXM violates a federal law that requires companies to make it easy to cancel a subscription
#FTC #clicktocancel #SiriusSM #subscriptions #NewYork #radio
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/24303294/sirius-xm-cancellation-process-illegal-ny-ag
I bet this new administration gets in the way of the #ClickToCancel guidance from the FTC. Heck, there's a decent chance there won't be an FTC by 2028. Too bad, they are one of the better branches for consumer protection.
Goodbye #Google anti trust lawsuit
Goodbye #clicktocancel subscriptions
Goodbye any hope of a #righttorepair bill
Goodbye any hope of digital #privacy laws
Goodbye being able to use the internet without giving someone your state issued ID
Hello Pirate hat and five finger discounts.
FTC's New 'Click To Cancel' Policy ENRAGES Industry Groups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOXn77vgDwE
Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’
Three industry groups, the NCTA, the Electronic Security Association (ESA), and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), are suing to prevent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing its new “Click to Cancel” rule that requires companies to make it easy to cancel subscriptions.
#FTC #ClickToCancel #NCTA #ESA #IAB #subscriptions #ToS #technology #tech
Unsurprisingly, companies whose business model is keeping unwanted subscriptions going are suing the FTC over “click to cancel”:
Guess who’s suing the #FTC to stop #clicktocancel? Yes, it’s exactly who you’d expect.
Groups representing telecom companies, home security companies, and internet advertisers don’t want to make #subscriptions easier to cancel.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/23/24278020/ftc-click-to-cancel-subscriptions-rule-lawsuit-telecoms-security-advertising-groups
Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’
The cable industry, home security companies, and advertisers are suing to stop a rule requiring making it easier to cancel subscriptions.
Big Telecom such as cable companies, newspapers such as the New York Times, and retailers such as Amazon has all asked the 5th Circuit to block the FTC's recently adopted click-to-cancel rule.
In the case of "I and many people told you so", the death of the Chevron difference by SCOTUS is going to be bad in the long run and it looks like this is yet another casualty.
Boo hoo, we don't want click-to-cancel because we know making it hard for consumers to fire us makes us money.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/23/24278020/ftc-click-to-cancel-subscriptions-rule-lawsuit-telecoms-security-advertising-groups #FTC #ClickToCancel
"Groups representing telecom companies, home security companies, and internet advertisers don’t want to make subscriptions easier to cancel."
Of course not and that's precisely why the government needs to intervene to protect customers. It shouldn't have to be this way but shady business is being shady and now it must.
This week, the #FTC issued its Amendments to the Negative Option Rule. If you offer #subscriptions, memberships, or auto-renewing contracts, take note. Here is our breakdown of the detailed consent, disclosure, and cancellation requirements: #ClickToCancel
https://www.zwillgen.com/ftc-state-ag/ftc-releases-final-negative-option-rule/
I can't wait to see what the CEO of Adobe has to say at the next board meeting after the FTC's "click to cancel" rule comes in!
"We regret to inform you that we've missed profit and revenue targets by over 30%"
"How did that happen?"
"Well, the government legislated that we can't charge people for what they don't want and suddenly we lost loads of customers and money"
Canceling subscriptions has to be as easy as signing up, the FTC says in a new rule
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday released a final rule called "click to cancel," which says online subscriptions should require the same number of clicks to end as they do to sign up, and in-person signups should have an option to cancel online or over the phone.
#FTC #ClickToCancel #subscriptions #finance #ToS #technology #tech
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5154814/click-to-cancel-subscriptions-memberships-ftc-rule
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