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A messaging app that became a hit with Gen Z allegedly collected data from children under 13 and charged users to reveal anonymous senders — a feature regulators say never actually worked.
Read the full report →A federal judge had already ruled that Amazon's Prime signup process broke the law. Discovery revealed internal emails calling unwanted subscriptions 'an unspoken cancer.' Then, three days into trial, Amazon agreed to pay a record $2.5 billion.
Read the full report →Education technology company Chegg will pay $7.5 million in consumer redress after the FTC alleged the company violated federal law by failing to provide a simple cancellation mechanism for its subscription service.
Read the full report →A senior Ticketmaster executive allegedly admitted in an internal email that the company turns a blind eye to scalpers. The FTC and seven states are suing over it, in a case that runs alongside, but separate from, the Justice Department's monopoly lawsuit against the same company.
Read the full report →Buyers thought they were paying for a certified used car. The FTC and Connecticut say the dealership tacked on certification charges its own manufacturer prohibited, then extended the scheme's fallout to individual sales managers.
Read the full report →The FTC isn't suing anyone yet. It's using a rarely-invoked study power to force seven of the biggest AI companies to explain, on the record, how their companion chatbots handle child safety, data collection, and emotional manipulation.
Read the full report →The nation's largest pet cremation company made nearly every one of its 1,800 employees, including hourly workers, sign an agreement barring them from working anywhere in the industry, anywhere in the country.
Read the full report →To operate a children's programmable robot toy, an app required location access. A federal complaint says that data was then quietly shared with a Chinese third party's servers — with no parental notice at all.
Read the full report →Temu didn't offer a phone number for reporting suspicious sellers, and its gamified shopping games had no reporting option at all until late 2024. It's now paying $2 million as the first company ever charged under a three-year-old federal law.
Read the full report →Disney told YouTube which of its own channels were made for kids. Then, according to the FTC, it let hundreds of individual videos slip through mislabeled as 'made for general audiences' — opening the door to ad trackers collecting data on millions of children.
Read the full report →Arise kept advertising $18-an-hour jobs even after the FTC warned it about unsubstantiated earnings claims in 2022. Three years later, nearly 100,000 consumers are getting refund checks.
Read the full report →Signing up for a paid dating subscription took a few taps. Regulators say canceling one took far more effort than it should have — part of a broader pattern across several popular dating apps under the same parent company.
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