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Amazon settles with FTC over 'deceptive' Prime signups

Three days after its trial got underway , Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that it tricked nearly 40 million customers into signing up for Prime and made cancelling that subscription especially challenging. Opening arguments in the trial started on Tuesday and Amazon, in a statement the day before the trial began, insisted "neither Amazon nor the individual defendants did anything wrong – we remain confident that the facts will show these executiv ...