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Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion in fines and redress to Prime subscribers to settle a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which accused the retail giant of signing users up for the service without their consent and making it difficult to cancel.
In a statement, the FTC said $1.5 billion of the total will go into a fund to repay eligible subscribers, on top of a $1 billion civil penalty.
The FTC — the US agency charged with consumer protection — sued Amazon in 2023,…
