{"id":85102,"date":"2023-06-22T01:17:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T05:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85102"},"modified":"2023-06-22T01:09:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T05:09:58","slug":"ftc-sues-amazon-over-deceptive-prime-sign-up-and-cancellation-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2023\/ftc-sues-amazon-over-deceptive-prime-sign-up-and-cancellation-process.html","title":{"rendered":"FTC sues Amazon over \u2018deceptive\u2019 Prime sign-up and cancellation process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\/\">Amazon<\/a>, alleging the nation\u2019s dominant online retailer intentionally duped millions of consumers into signing up for its mainstay Prime program and \u201csabotaged\u201d their attempts to cancel. The agency claims Amazon violated the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers\u2019 Confidence Act by using so-called dark patterns, or deceptive design tactics meant to steer users toward a specific choice, to push consumers to enroll in Prime without their consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/21\/ftc-sues-amazon-over-deceptive-prime-sign-up-and-cancellation-process.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging the nation\u2019s dominant online retailer intentionally duped millions of consumers into signing up for its mainstay Prime program and \u201csabotaged\u201d their attempts to cancel. The agency claims Amazon violated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85103,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85102\/revisions\/85103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}