The Federal Trade Commission has proposed making it easier for consumers to cancel online subscriptions they no longer want — including to streaming services — with civil penalties for companies that violate the new rules.
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released Friday is part of a broader review of the FTC's 1973 negative option rule but also comes in the wake of the agency's lawsuit accusing Amazon of “trapping” consumers into retaining their subscriptions by making it difficult to cancel them.
