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(Bloomberg) -- The US Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon.com Inc. Wednesday, alleging the e-commerce giant duped consumers into signing up for its Prime membership service and deliberately made it hard to cancel.Most Read from BloombergNoises Detected in Search for Titanic Vessel as Oxygen WanesChina Says Biden Calling Xi a Dictator Is ‘Provocation’These Are World’s Most Expensive Cities for High-Class LivingHedging Failure Exposes Private Equity to Interest-Rate SurgeWhat We Know About the Mi...

After a lengthy investigation of Amazon's Prime sign-up and cancellation processes, the FTC is suing the online retailer, alleging that it used illegal tactics to get customers to subscribe to Prime, additionally making it difficult to cancel said subscription. The FTC said in a press release that Amazon violated the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act as well as the FTC Act by employing something called "dark patterns." Dark patterns refer to website designs that are meant to influence users to make certain choices, according to Vox...

Amazon was sued Wednesday by Federal Trade Commission for what it called a years-long effort to enroll consumers without consent into its Prime program and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, the agency accused Amazon of using deceptive designs, known as “dark patterns,” to deceive consumers into enrolling in the program. It said the option to purchase items on Amazon without subscribing to Prime was more difficult in many cases...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday, accusing the retailer of enrolling millions of consumers into its paid subscription Amazon Prime service without their consent and making it hard for them to cancel. The FTC filed suit in federal court in Seattle and said it alleged that "Amazon has knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in Amazon Prime." The FTC said Amazon used "manipulative, coercive or deceptive user-interface designs known as 'dark patterns' to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions."...

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The FTC has accused Amazon of enrolling millions of consumers into its paid subscription Prime service without their consent and making it hard for them to cancel...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday, accusing the retailer of enrolling millions of consumers into its paid subscription Amazon Prime service without their consent and making it hard for them to cancel. The FTC filed suit in federal court in Seattle and said it alleged that "Amazon has knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in Amazon Prime." The FTC said Amazon used "manipulative, coercive or deceptive user-interface designs known as 'dark patterns' to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions."...

Amazon ‘s price target was raised by analysts at Jefferies, who see the tech giant and online retailer benefiting from the growing adoption of artificial intelligence. “We see AMZN as a core beneficiary from the rise of AI as AWS benefits from increased usage to train and run AI models,” the Jefferies analysts wrote in a note. Amazon was trading slightly lower in premarket trading to $125.68...

The tech and e-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) had quite the run since it was launched as an online book store in 1997 by the young and ambitious Jeff Bezos. Its success attracted capital from many ultrahigh-net-worth individuals and funds run by billionaires like Warren Buffett, David Tepper, and Stanley Druckenmiller. Let's see how much each has made off of their investment in Amazon, which is now in the $1 trillion market cap club...

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