There are an estimated 200 million Amazon Prime members around the world — 150 million of which are based in the US. The FTC filed a suit on Wednesday claiming Amazon used “dark patterns ...

According to Wednesday’s complaint, Amazon took some steps in April, in response to FTC pressure, to simplify users’ ability to cancel their Prime subscriptions but before then had denied ...

The FTC sued Amazon in federal court in Seattle, alleging that the company has "knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in Amazon Prime." In a statement, Amazon called the ...

The purpose of Amazon’s Prime cancellation process was to make it harder — not easier — for customers to cancel their Prime accounts, the FTC said. “Amazon tricked and trapped people into ...

Attorneys for Amazon on Wednesday urged U.S. District Judge John Chun to dismiss the FTC's claims, opens new tab that the company had tricked consumers into enrolling for Prime and made it hard ...

So, for example, the FTC says Amazon's website would bombard shoppers with ways to sign up for Prime, but options to shop without Prime would be hard to spot. Or regulators say there would be a ...

the FTC has put Amazon on constant defense, but it has all been a prelude to her goal of forcing the company to split. To consumers, the entities of Amazon, Amazon Prime and Amazon Web Services ...

The lawsuit targeting Prime is a big one, but the FTC has an even bigger case against Amazon waiting in the wings, expected for later this summer. On Friday’s episode of What Next: TBD ...

The FTC has alleged that Amazon "tricked, coerced, and manipulated consumers into subscribing to Amazon Prime," a court order said, failing to get informed consent by designing a murky sign-up ...

The FTC accused Amazon in 2023 of using “deceptive user-interface designs known as ‘dark patterns’ to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions.” ...

FTC attorneys asked a Seattle judge to delay the start of a trial over its Amazon Prime "dark patterns" case. The agency ...