{"id":971832,"date":"2025-11-05T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971832"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:40:11","slug":"amazon-to-pay-1-5-billion-in-ftc-settlement-heres-how-prime-members-can-claim-their-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/05\/amazon-to-pay-1-5-billion-in-ftc-settlement-heres-how-prime-members-can-claim-their-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to pay $1.5 billion in FTC settlement \u2014 here\u2019s how Prime members can claim their cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reached a massive $2.5 billion settlement with the FTC. Out of this, $1 billion will go to the government, while $1.5 billion will be given to customers who were affected by what the FTC called \u201cdeceptive Prime sign-up practices.\u201d About 35 million people are expected to get refunds. The refund amount could go up to $51 per person, depending on eligibility. <\/p>\n<p>The case is about how Amazon allegedly tricked people into signing up for Prime. The FTC accused Amazon of using \u201cdark patterns\u201d \u2014 confusing website designs that made it too easy to join Prime accidentally,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reached a massive $2.5 billion settlement with the FTC. Out of this, $1 billion will go to the government, while $1.5 billion will be given to customers who were affected by what the FTC called \u201cdeceptive Prime sign-up practices.\u201d About 35 million people are expected to get refunds. The refund amount could go up to $51 per person, depending on eligibility. The case is about how Amazon allegedly tricked people into signing up for Prime. The FTC accused Amazon of using \u201cdark patterns\u201d \u2014 confusing website designs that made it too easy to join Prime accidentally,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971832","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}