In April, the FTC closed a public comment period asking businesses and consumers alike how the agency should update its ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is increasingly directing both its enforcement and rulemaking efforts toward auto-renewal programs, with a particular focus on burdensome or opaque cancellation ...

The Unsubscribe Act, proposed in the House, joins a companion bill in the Senate, as well as two other bills, in creating a "click-to-cancel" rule for subscriptions. The measures all have come after a ...

The new rule change will require sellers to make it just as easy for consumers to cancel a subscription as it was for them to sign up in the first place. Federal regulators have just finalized a new ...

Within days of taking office this year, New York City Mayor Mamdani signed an executive order entitled Fighting Subscription Tricks and Traps, which directed the City’s Department of Consumer and ...

The Biden-era rule, finalized in 2024, was dubbed “click to cancel” because it included a requirement that consumers be able to cancel a subscription using the same method with which they signed up ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was set to begin enforcement of the “click to cancel” rule on May 14, but a new release from the agency pushed that date to July 14. As is the case with many of the ...