{"id":964859,"date":"2025-09-27T11:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964859"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:08:34","slug":"amazon-to-pay-2-5-billion-to-settle-ftc-lawsuit-over-prime-subscription-two-executives-prohibited-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/amazon-to-pay-2-5-billion-to-settle-ftc-lawsuit-over-prime-subscription-two-executives-prohibited-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC lawsuit over Prime subscription; two executives prohibited from\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission, accusing the e-commerce giant of misleading millions of customers into signing up for Prime subscription and intentionally making it difficult to cancel. According to a Bloomberg report, Amazon will pay $1 billion in civil penalties and will refund $1.5 billion to customers to resolve FTC\u2019s allegations. The e-tailer will also simplify its process to cancel the Prime subscription.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement comes three days after the two picked a nine-person jury to decide whether Amazon and the executives were liable. As per the Bloomberg report, the settlement will remain in effect for 10 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission, accusing the e-commerce giant of misleading millions of customers into signing up for Prime subscription and intentionally making it difficult to cancel. According to a Bloomberg report, Amazon will pay $1 billion in civil penalties and will refund $1.5 billion to customers to resolve FTC\u2019s allegations. The e-tailer will also simplify its process to cancel the Prime subscription. The settlement comes three days after the two picked a nine-person jury to decide whether Amazon and the executives were liable. As per the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}