{"id":969325,"date":"2025-10-24T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969325"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:06:52","slug":"amazon-to-pay-2-5-billion-to-settle-ftc-lawsuit-how-to-check-if-youre-eligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/amazon-to-pay-2-5-billion-to-settle-ftc-lawsuit-how-to-check-if-youre-eligible\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC lawsuit: How to check if you\u2019re eligible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is soon set to start paying $1.5 billion to customers as part of a $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over its Prime subscription practices. Last month, Amazon and the FTC agreed to a settlement after the US agency filed a 2023 complaint accusing Amazon of \u201cknowingly duping\u201d people into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions and \u201ccomplicating the cancellation process.\u201d Amazon said at the time of the settlement that the company and its executives \u201chave always followed the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FTC claims followed a 2022 Business Insider investigation that showed Amazon executives were aware of difficulties in the cancellation process but did not address them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is soon set to start paying $1.5 billion to customers as part of a $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over its Prime subscription practices. Last month, Amazon and the FTC agreed to a settlement after the US agency filed a 2023 complaint accusing Amazon of \u201cknowingly duping\u201d people into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions and \u201ccomplicating the cancellation process.\u201d Amazon said at the time of the settlement that the company and its executives \u201chave always followed the law.\u201d The FTC claims followed a 2022 Business Insider investigation that showed Amazon executives were aware of difficulties [&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-969325","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\/969325","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=969325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}