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Amazon reaches $2.5 billion settlement over Prime enrolment and cancellation
The FTC’s case concerned design practices that enrolled customers in Prime without clear consent and made cancellation unnecessarily difficult.
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Consent and choice are meaningful only when interfaces, cancellation paths and representations are clear enough for people to act on them.
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LinkedIn fined €310 million over behavioural analysis and advertising
The regulator examined LinkedIn’s legal bases for processing members’ data for behavioural analysis and targeted advertising. It found failures involving lawfulness, fairness and transparency.
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European regulators order a ban on Meta’s unlawful behavioural advertising processing
The EDPB found an ongoing infringement involving processing for behavioural advertising on the basis of contract and legitimate interests across the European Economic Area.
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Amazon ordered to pay $25 million over children’s Alexa recordings
The government alleged that Amazon retained children’s voice recordings indefinitely, disregarded deletion requests and used retained data to improve Alexa’s algorithms.
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Ring settles FTC charges over employee access and account security
The FTC alleged that Ring gave employees and contractors broad access to customers’ videos and failed to implement basic security measures, enabling account takeovers and harassment.
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Amazon pays $61.7 million after withholding Flex driver tips
The FTC alleged that Amazon reduced its own contribution to driver pay after promising drivers they would receive all customer tips, and failed to make the change clear.
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Facebook agrees to $5 billion FTC privacy settlement
The FTC alleged that Facebook violated a 2012 privacy order by misleading users about control over their personal information and the handling of facial-recognition settings and phone numbers.
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