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FTC Seeks Injunction to Bar Amazon's ‘Legally Indefensible’ Prime Enrollment, Cancellation Practices
Amazon for years “has knowingly duped” millions of consumers into “unknowingly enrolling” in Amazon Prime, in violation of the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (ROSCA), alleged the FTC in a partially redacted fraud complaint Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00932) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. Amazon used “manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs” called “dark patterns” to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions, it said.