Jul 22, 2024 FTC Takes Action Against Adobe for Unfair Subscription Practices By Kate Patton Maria Nava The Federal Trade Commission announced an action against Adobe and two of its executives, Maninder Sawhney and David Wadhwani, alleging...
Jun 16, 2024 Court Allows FTC's Lawsuit Over Amazon Prime's Sign-Up and Cancellation Procedures to Continue By Jeff Greenbaum Last year, the Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon, alleging that the company violated Section 5 of the FTC Act, as well as ROSCA (the...
May 01, 2024 FTC Pursues Bill Payment Company Over Alleged Dark Patterns, Illegal Junk Fees and ROSCA Violations By Kate Patton The Federal Trade Commission took action under the FTC Act, the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...
Jun 23, 2023 FTC Primes for Fight Against Amazon By Kate Patton The Federal Trade Commission announced that it filed a complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail giant used dark...
Jan 26, 2023 When does the FTC step in over a free trial that automatically converts to a ongoing subscription? By Terri Seligman When it gets 70,000+ complaints. Back in 2016, the FTC settled with beauty product and nutritional supplement marketer, NutriClick....
Jan 14, 2023 FTC's Action on Earnings Claims Has Important Lessons for All Advertisers By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission just announced that it reached a $1.7 million settlement with WealthPress, resolving allegations that the...
May 11, 2022 Subscription Services In the Crosshairs Again By Terri Seligman In April, the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB) announced that it filed a lawsuit against TransUnion, two of its subsidiaries,...
Mar 29, 2022 Raging Mad: Subscription Program Provokes Ire of Consumers, and the FTC By Terri Seligman The FTC recently announced a settlement with the operators of RagingBull.com, an online stock trading site. This is a case about a...
Jan 17, 2022 New FTC Settlement Targets B2B Marketing, Including Company’s B2B Subscription Practices By Terri Seligman As the Federal Trade Commission noted in its recent press release announcing its settlement with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), a leading...
Apr 05, 2021 The Gift That Keeps On Giving, Even When You Don't Want It To By Terri Seligman It was reported in today’s news that online donors to former President Trump’s campaign “unwittingly” donated on a weekly basis when they...
Sep 04, 2020 The “Roach Motel”: An Inescapable Auto-Renew Plan By Terri Seligman In his impassioned separate statement accompanying the FTC Stipulated Order in a recent case, Commissioner Chopra decried the use of...
May 11, 2020 Not-So-Free Free Trials: Part 2 By Terri Seligman Way back in September (in a galaxy far far away, or so it now seems), I blogged about a case brought by the FTC against several companies...
Feb 18, 2020 Auto-Renew: NAD Weighs In Too By Terri Seligman As readers of this blog know, regulation and enforcement of auto-renew programs is a regular topic. That’s because the FTC has been busy...
Sep 07, 2019 Again With The Not-So-Free Free Trials? FTC Gets Injunction By Terri Seligman As alleged by the FTC, the defendants operated an online subscription scam, involving eight different product lines, primarily personal...
Jun 02, 2019 Risk Free: Not For These Marketers By Terri Seligman Free trials. Auto-renewals. Negative options. Continuity programs. ROSCA. You've seen these words a lot in this blog because of the...
May 30, 2019 Another State Enacts Auto-Renew Law By Terri Seligman North Dakota is the latest to join the ever-increasing list of states regulating auto-renew programs. Its new law applies to contracts...