“Negative Option” Deceptive Online Selling Now Illegal

[Bugbatter]

Congress has passed the “Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act” to combat deceptive online sales tactics that keep charging consumers for goods and services until they cancel their membership.  In so-called “negative option” plans, the seller interprets the consumer’s silence or failure to reject goods or to
cancel the sales agreement, as acceptance of the offer.

Continued here:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/12/negoption.shtm

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But like all other laws, this is only enforceable on companies based here in the US. Any company based in another country does not have to abide by that rule.