{"id":59127,"date":"2023-03-23T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=d92b455bcbbdb1dacb6a2d33d594f668"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:06:15","slug":"click-to-cancel-rule-would-penalize-companies-that-make-you-cancel-by-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59127","title":{"rendered":"\u201cClick-to-cancel\u201d rule would penalize companies that make you cancel by phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: My own opinion that if you can't cancel via the same medium you use to sign up, it's at very least fraud adjacent might be getting formalized into policy.<\/div>
\n
\n \"Federal\n

Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan listens during a President Biden speech on the economy on October 26, 2022, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Anna Moneymaker )<\/p> <\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

Canceling a subscription should be just as easy as signing up for the service, the Federal Trade Commission said in a proposed \"click-to-cancel\" rule announced today<\/a>. If approved, the plan \"would put an end to companies requiring you to call customer service to cancel an account that you opened on their website,\" FTC commissioners said.<\/p>\n

The FTC said the click-to-cancel rule would require sellers \"to make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up,\" and \"go a long way to rescuing consumers from seemingly never-ending struggles to cancel unwanted subscription payment plans for everything from cosmetics to newspapers to gym memberships.\"<\/p>\n

The FTC said the proposed rule would be enforced with civil penalties and let the commission return money to harmed consumers.<\/p><\/div>

Read 11 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enlarge \/ Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan listens during a President Biden speec…<\/p>\n

Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}