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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime

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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime

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Technology@beehaw.org · 3 months ago

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Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission which said the online giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships, and made it difficult to cancel after they did so.

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