Trade groups representing advertisers, newspapers, and surveillance providers also want to stop an FTC rule meant to make it easy for consumers to cancel subscriptions.
The cable TV and broadband industry is suing the Federal Trade Commission over a new rule intended to help consumers easily cancel unwanted subscriptions, arguing that it’s unlawful.
Three trade groups that represent the cable industry, advertisers, and video surveillance companies filed a lawsuit in a US appeals court to invalidate the FTC’s “click to cancel” rule.
The NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, which counts Comcast, Charter Communications, and Disney among its members, filed the lawsuit alongside the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Electronic Security Association.
The trade groups take issue with a section of the FTC’s new rule that will crack down on another controversial business practice called “negative option programs.
