Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
by kuschku on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:31AM
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The EU regulation on this was already passed several years ago, and is already enforced in some countries, it should be universally enforced by the end of the year.
Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
by rlpb on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:32AM
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Any chance of a reference here please? I've been unable to find the law (in my case the UK, but an EU regulation reference would help) which enacts this, and I'm dealing with a dispute at the moment where this would be helpful.
Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
by abainbridge on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:19AM
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I can't find anything about the EU implementing this. Here is a UK document from July 2021 discussing why the UK might want to do it, and thus implying that it hadn't yet - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
by bodge5000 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @03:14AM
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Usually Germany is pretty snappy on enforcing EU regulations, but at least in this case it would appear not as I've heard Germans more than any other EU national complaining about this issue in particular. Again though, maybe there are loopholes (just look at GDPR, or to an extent even TPD).
Do you have a regulation reference by any chance?
Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
by kuschku on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:59PM
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It was implemented in German law via
Gesetzesänderung des § 309 Nr. 13 BGB vom 1. Oktober 2016
Of course you could argue that the EU might do it one day, but you could say the same about the UK.
That being said I thought it already was against UK law. Maybe I got that wrong, or there are loopholes around it, or its just not heavily enforced. Who knows