a “ Click to cancel ” The law was adopted last month in California, and now the FTC has ratified the federal rule intended to achieve the same goal. The idea of both is to make the company make the subscription online or applications as easily, as in the first place.
Update: FTC announced that law enforcement was withdrawn from July 14 to 14 to give companies more time to answer, and that it can even be weakened-sm. The end of the work. Sending. For example, if you can register on the Internet, you must be able to cancel on the same web, in the same number of steps.
ftc launched the Adobe investigation after customers accused the company of the shade in this area. The rule is ratified
the agency has currently announced that the rule has been completed. “The FTC rule will put an end to these tricks and traps, saving time and money to the Americans. No one should get stuck, paying for a service that they no longer want. ”
This is well known for automatic subscription updating, if you do not cancel what FTC calls it as a “negative option ” -What there is a subscription selected, and not selected annually. Consent ” For automatic update
, but it was weakened by two ways
at Initial preparation, the rule would require the company to send annual reminders that your subscription is still active. This was intended to consider the general scenario of consumers who forgot about an unused subscription. Engadget notes that the requirement was deleted. The thought here is that this contradicts the idea of the process of refusing to subscribe to one click. ID = “H-UPDATE DELAYED and May-BE-BE-BEAKED”> Update: delayed and can be weakened
Engadget, the application was postponed for two months, and the law can be weakened. Implemented on May 14, FTC now states that the law enforcement was postponed 60 days until July 14 […] added “ in the statement; If this experience of application exposes problems with the rule, the commission is open to amend ” It.
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