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 ...

• Americans are losing hundreds of dollars a year on subscriptions they forget to cancel or can’t easily escape. • A federal court ruling has stalled the FTC’s “click to cancel” consumer protection ...

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 ...

On April 9, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine announced a proposed rule that would make New York City the first ...

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 ...

A federal appeals court blocked a new rule that would have forced businesses to make it easier to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit struck ...

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 ...