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FTC Hearings yesterday for "Click to Cancel"
The Federal Trade Commission had a public hearing yesterday for their proposed national "Click to Cancel" regulation. The proposal states that if you can sign up for a service online, say for example, a monitoring service, you must be able to cancel it in the same manner. I for one will not be interested in this with SimpliSafe, but I am a big proponent in general, especially when having to deal with low-life companies like ADT, Comcast, Sirius Radio, and even local newspapers.
thaprezjpb
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17 days ago
So where is this for this company?
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dlpsr
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16 days ago
Laws are just toilet paper 🧻 if not enforced aggressively. Rosca has been law for quite some time, 2010 I believe.
Of course there has to be sufficient complaints to get action, which there aren't. AG's do little on single complaints, spread across many States. It takes 100's or more.
And an effort by companies to actually comply with a law.
Excerpt;
Makes it unlawful for an initial merchant to disclose such financial account number or other billing information to any post-transaction third party Internet seller (sometimes referred to as a data-pass).
Makes it unlawful for any person to charge or attempt to charge a consumer for goods or services sold in an Internet-based transaction through a negative option feature unless the person: (1) provides text that clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms of the transaction before obtaining the consumer's billing information; (2) obtains a consumer's express informed consent before charging the consumer's financial account for products or services through such transaction; and (3) provides simple mechanisms for a consumer to stop recurring charges from being placed on the consumer's financial account. Defines "negative option feature" to mean, in an offer or agreement to sell or provide any goods or services, a provision under which the customer's silence or failure to take an affirmative action to reject goods or services or to cancel the agreement is interpreted by the seller as acceptance of the offer.
Treats a violation of this Act or any regulation thereunder as an unfair or deceptive act or practice. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce this Act.
Authorizes the attorney general of a state to bring an action for injunctive relief in federal court on behalf of the state's residents.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/3386
IANAL
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