{"id":72,"date":"2025-05-11T02:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-ftc-puts-off-enforcing-its-click-to-cancel-rule\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T02:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:14:25","slug":"the-ftc-puts-off-enforcing-its-click-to-cancel-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-ftc-puts-off-enforcing-its-click-to-cancel-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The FTC puts off enforcing its \u2018click-to-cancel\u2019 rule"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was set to start enforcing the remaining provisions of its \u201cclick-to-cancel\u201d rule on May 14th, requiring that subscriptions be as easy to cancel as to start. Now, the agency says<\/a> it won\u2019t enforce the rule until July 14th, as TechCrunch <\/em>reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also known as the Negative Option Rule, the big component of click-to-cancel is that it forbids companies from making customers jump through hoops that differ from the process to sign up for an account. If you can sign up online, you must be able to cancel online, too. As the FTC points out, the original May 14th deadline was already a deferral for that and related provisions.<\/p>\n

The agency says it chose to push enforcement back even further after \u201ca fresh assessment of the burdens that forcing compliance by this date would impose.\u201d The FTC voted 3-0 for the delay, but as TechCrunch<\/em> notes, two of a typical five commissioners were absent from the vote. That\u2019s because they were illegally fired by Donald Trump<\/a> in March. <\/p>\n

Perhaps on the bright side for consumers, the FTC says that starting on the new deadline, \u201cregulated entities must be in compliance with the whole of the Rule because the Commission will begin enforcing it.\u201d However, it doesn\u2019t rule out changing any of the regulation\u2019s provisions, writing that it\u2019s \u201copen to amending the Rule\u201d if enforcing it \u201cexposes any problems.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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