EPIC Joins Coalition Urging FTC to Renew Click-to-Cancel Rulemaking to Protect Consumers from Subscription Traps

Last week, EPIC joined two comments (available here and here) to the FTC calling on the Commission to renew its click-to-cancel rulemaking, which was dubiously vacated last year on procedural grounds. The Consumer Federation of America and the American Economic Liberties Project filed the petition in December 2025. The coalition supporting the petition include civil society groups, consumer protection organizations, and privacy advocates.

The FTC originally adopted its click-to-cancel rule in 2024. The rule would have ended the “subscription cancellation hell” Americans currently face by trying to stop companies from unfairly trapping consumers in recurring subscriptions. Essentially, companies would have had to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up for it. This rule was broadly popular with consumers because it stopped them from being trapped in annoying, invasive, and costly subscription traps.

EPIC has long worked to protect consumers from manipulative design features that force consumers to give up more money and personal data than they intend, and has repeatedly called on the FTC to renew the click-to-cancel rulemaking to protect consumers. EPIC’s sign-on to the two comments on the FTC petition is the latest step in that campaign.