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The FTC Wrote a Rule Requiring That Cancelling a Subscription Be as Easy as Starting One. A Federal Court Vacated It Six Days Before It Took Effect, Over a Missing Cost Analysis.
The Federal Trade Commission finalised its revised Negative Option Rule in October 2024. It was known almost immediately as the click-to-cancel rule, because its central requirement was that a subscription be as easy to leave as it was to join. If a customer could sign up in four
New York Paused Congestion Pricing for 'Affordability' Weeks Before a 2024 Election, Then Relaunched It at a Lower Price Once Voting Was Over. A Year Later, Traffic Was Down 11 Percent and the Federal Government Was Still in Court Trying to Kill It.
On June 5, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul stood before reporters and "indefinitely paused" New York's Central Business District Tolling Program, the long-planned congestion charge for driving into Manhattan below 60th Street. The launch was three weeks away. Hochul cited affordability concerns for working- and middle-
Waze Lets You Report Police Locations. An Entire Sheriffs' Association Asked Google to Turn It Off.
Waze lets drivers crowdsource the location of speed traps and parked patrol cars, which is either a helpful public service or an officer-safety threat depending entirely on which side of the windshield you're on. In January 2015, the National Sheriffs' Association publicly asked Google to turn
Britain Played the "Think of the Children" Card to Build a Digital Checkpoint. A VPN Became the #1 App.
For as long as pornography has existed online, proving you were old enough to see it meant clicking a button that said so.
The National Parks Fixed Their Overcrowding Problem With Reservations. Then They Un-Fixed It.
Timed entry actually worked. It got scrapped anyway in 2026 — and the gridlock came right back.
Boeing Engineers Called Their Own Plane 'Designed by Clowns.' They Were Right.
A software system meant to quietly correct the plane's nose was, in two crashes, the thing that put it into the ground.
Retailers Start Pulling the Plug on Self-Checkout
Retailers built self-checkout to cut labor costs. It turned out to also cut out the part where someone's watching.