In my June 2023 column, I wrote about an initiative by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to modernize the 1973 Negative Option Rule for the digital economy. The proposed amendments are intended to ...

The Federal Trade Commission has overstepped its regulatory authority with its proposed changes to the "negative option rule" governing when a consumer has accepted a company's offer of products or ...

Under the rule, companies selling goods or services with a negative option feature will be prohibited from: The rule goes further and specifies where the company must place these disclosures. They ...

A federal appeals court today struck down a "click-to-cancel" rule that would have required companies to make cancelling services as easy as signing up. The Federal Trade Commission rule was scheduled ...

Yesterday, the Eighth Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Negative Option Rule (Click-to-Cancel Rule or Rule) that was set to go into effect on July 14. As a quick refresher, in ...

The FTC is delaying enforcement of its so-called "click-to-cancel" rule until July. Enforcing the rule would prohibit companies from making it any more difficult for consumers to cancel than it was to ...

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) “click-to-cancel” rule was struck down by an appeals court on Tuesday, just days before it was set to take effect. The rule, announced in October 2024, would have ...