federal trade commission
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Amazon Allegedly Tricked Users Into Prime Subscriptions and Sabotaged Their Attempts to Cancel
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Amazon Wednesday, alleging the company “duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in Amazon Prime,” and used so-called dark patterns to sabotage attempts to cancel those subscriptions. “Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant…
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Senate Committee Passes Tech Antitrust Bill That’s Making Apple and Google Lose Their Minds
Legislative efforts to rein in Big Tech’s alleged anti-competitive, self-preferential business practices took a big step forward on Thursday as a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted overwhelmingly (16-6) in favour of advancing new antitrust legislation. Now, the hotly contested American Innovation and Choice Online Act will head to the Senate…
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Amazon Must Pay Thousands of Flex Drivers an Average of A$568 After Tips Were Withheld
Starting today, the Federal Trade Commission will start doing something Amazon failed to do for around 140,000 of its Flex delivery drivers: pay them their tips.
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FTC Refiles Historic Antitrust Lawsuit as Facebook Tries to Bury the News With Shiny Things
Amid a Facebook marketing blitz, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday refiled its antitrust lawsuit against the company, claiming that it “holds monopoly power” in the social media market, and maintains that monopoly by “systematically” purchasing rivals and creating other barriers to competition.