Legislators and regulators have shown a keen interest in regulating businesses that sell auto-renewing subscriptions more stringently in recent years, and this interest shows no signs of waning. The nationwide baseline is set to evolve...
On May 19, 2025, President Trump signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act into law. The Act creates new obligations for online platforms to remove certain nonconsensual intimate visual depictions of both adults and minors within 48 hours...
The Massachusetts Attorney General has released final regulations (“the Final Regulations”) imposing obligations on businesses that offer auto-renewing subscriptions, as well as businesses that impose purportedly hidden or misleading fees (referred to as “junk fees”). The Final...
Update: The FTC extended the deadline to comply with the Negative Option Rule’s consent, disclosure, and cancellation requirements from May 14, 2025, to July 14, 2025. Major News for Subscriptions and Auto-Renewing Contracts: The Federal Trade...
Automatically renewing subscriptions continue to be a prime target for state legislatures. The first six months of 2024 have seen a steady flow of new auto-renewal laws, as well as class action complaints and regulatory...
Update 3/11/25: Massachusetts Finalizes Auto-Renewal & “Junk Fees” Regulations. View the update in our blog post here. In a growing effort to regulate subscription services and purportedly hidden or misleading fees (referred to as “junk...