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The FTC's order covers a $1 billion civil penalty and $1.5 billion in refunds to an estimated 35 million people enrolled in Prime without consent. Internal documents surfaced before trial. Amazon admitted no wrongdoing.
Read the case fileThe complaint alleges the one service tool capable of every repair is reserved for authorised dealers, while the version farmers and independent shops can buy cannot do the job. Deere denied its practices were unlawful, then conceded its dealer tool has characteristics that differentiate it from the rest.
Largest settlement ever obtained by a single state. The claim: Facebook harvested biometric identifiers from uploaded photos and videos through automatic tag suggestions, in breach of the Texas biometric statute and its deceptive-trade-practices act. Meta admitted nothing and floated building data centres in Texas in the same breath.
Filed alongside the Prime action and unresolved: allegations that Amazon illegally suppressed competition among online marketplaces. Nothing in the $2.5 billion settlement touches it.
A multistate coalition settled with Google over location tracking that continued after users believed they had switched it off. Indiana and Washington later took $29.5 million, California $93 million, Texas $1.375 billion.
A US class action ended in a $1.5 million deal over updates that produced error messages when third-party cartridges were installed. A year earlier a French group had filed against Brother, Canon, Epson and HP over deliberately shortened printer and cartridge lifespans; the fine there was 15,000 euro.