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(NewsNation) — The Federal Trade Commission has filed a suit against Uber, saying it utilized deceptive billing and cancellation practices tied to its subscription service.
The rideshare and transportation institution has a subscription work for $9.99 per period called Uber One, which offers discounts connected fees associated with the app's features.
The FTC said Uber falsely claimed that users would prevention $25 done the service, charged customers earlier their billing day and made it hard for users to cancel the work contempt its "cancel anytime" promises.
“Americans are bushed of getting signed up for unwanted subscriptions that look intolerable to cancel,” FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson said successful a statement. “The Trump-Vance FTC is warring backmost connected behalf of the American people."
In its lawsuit, the FTC alleged the company's practices interruption the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (ROSCA), requiring online retailers to intelligibly explicate the presumption of the work they are selling, get consumers’ consent earlier charging them for a work and marque it casual to cancel a recurring subscription.
Uber has been deed with lawsuits successful the past, settling a caller 1 filed by the DOJ successful 2022 erstwhile the Justice Department alleged the institution was discriminating against customers with a disablement by charging "wait fees" erstwhile they needed much clip to get successful a conveyance owed to their disability.
