Amazon admonished for 'bad faith' privilege tactics in US FTC case
By Maria Dinzeo ( July 10, 2025, 20:29 GMT | Insight) -- A US federal judge admonished Amazon for abusing attorney-client privilege to withhold nearly 70,000 documents from the Federal Trade Commission in a lawsuit over its Prime subscription practices, calling the company’s conduct “tantamount to bad faith” and warning that similar tactics could result in harsher sanctions.Amazon acted in bad faith when it withheld nearly 70,000 documents from the Federal Trade Commission in the agency’s lawsuit over Amazon’s alleged use of “dark patterns” in its Prime membership service, a US federal judge ruled today....
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