Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click

• Sinupret@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was pretty sure that there is something and a lot of searching finally led me to the “Unfair Commercial Practices Directive” from 2005. There also is a guidance to that directive from 2021 that is found here: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX…

  Section 4.2.7 (dark patterns) is what is interesting for this topic. In the paragraph at the end of the section it includes the sentence:

  unsubscribing from a service should be as easy as subscribing to the service

  So it appears that the EU intended it that way but because it’s only a directive, implementation differs by country. I also didn’t see anything about being able to cancel in the same way you subscribed(e.g. that they can’t force you to call or send a letter if you subscribed online), but afaik german law has a ruling like this.

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• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Under the GDPR, it must be “as easy to withdraw as to give consent”. You must make it very easy for people to unsubscribe: one or two clicks at most

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  • bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure how the GDPR would apply to a service subscription. While the service is running, the companies have legitimate interest to keep your data, so you can’t have it removed.

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