{"id":233920,"date":"2024-06-19T02:28:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T02:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/adobe-under-fire-from-ftc-over-deceptive-practices\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:16:44","slug":"adobe-under-fire-from-ftc-over-deceptive-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/adobe-under-fire-from-ftc-over-deceptive-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe under fire from FTC over deceptive practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is launching a case against Adobe due to alleged deceptive practices related to the company&#8217;s subscription services. According to the FTC, Adobe violates the Restore Online Shoppers\u2019 Confidence Act and the commission highlights a few key issues.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/21\/03\/photoshop-m1\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe under fire from FTC over deceptive practices\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firstly, Adobe describes its subscription plan as monthly but charges cancellation fees when a user wants to cancel it earlier than one year. Additionally, Adobe places numerous obstacles within the cancellation process, and often, users are led to believe they&#8217;ve cancelled the plan when, in reality, monthly payments still occur.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe usually charges 50% of the remaining subscription payments as a cancellation fee. This could be part of the reason why Adobe&#8217;s subscription services revenue ballooned from $7.7 billion in 2019 to $14.2 billion in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>FTC points out two defendants from Adobe &#8211; the Vice President Maninder Sawhney and the President of Digital Media David Wadhwani.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe&#8217;s official response states that it would seek legal battle in court and denies FTC&#8217;s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty by the Department of Justice, Adobe would be subject to monetary penalties and it would have to refund customers who were forced to pay a cancellation fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2024\/06\/ftc-takes-action-against-adobe-executives-hiding-fees-preventing-consumers-easily-cancelling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source 1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.adobe.com\/news\/news-details\/2024\/Adobes-Statement-Regarding-Federal-Trade-Commission-Complaint\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source 2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/adobe_under_fire_from_ftc_over_deceptive_practices-news-63339.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is launching a case against Adobe due to alleged deceptive practices related to the company&#8217;s subscription services. According to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}