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The federal rule meant to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up for one has been dead for over a year. The fines haven't stopped.

The microphone in your TV remote is the obvious privacy worry. The setting regulators keep going after is automatic content recognition, which reports what is on your screen from every source.

Gift cards are protected by federal law for years. Loyalty and rewards points aren't, and companies can wipe them out overnight.

The FTC's click-to-cancel rule was struck down in 2025 and still hasn't come back — which is why quitting some subscriptions still means picking up the phone.

A federal court vacated the FTC's click-to-cancel rule in 2025. Since then, Connecticut, New York City and half a dozen other states have passed their own versions.

A federal rule now bans hiding mandatory fees until checkout for tickets and hotels. Here's what's covered, what's exempt, and how to tell it's working.

The face price is never the price. A practical guide to why concert fees balloon at checkout, and the handful of moves that actually shrink them.

A Green Day ticket that hit A$500 mid-queue, an Oasis onsale that rose by hundreds of pounds - dynamic pricing turned buying a concert ticket into a live auction. Here's how it works and why it persists.

The justices left Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board while her suit proceeds, but cleared Trump to remove an FTC commissioner the same day.