Amazon fined $2.25 million for failing to help identity theft victims

The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million to settee claims that the institution failed to assistance customers who fell unfortunate to individuality theft, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In its complaint, the FTC accuses Amazon of refusing to supply customers with accusation astir purchases made with fraudulent accounts, successful usurpation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

As alleged successful the filing, individuality theft victims who contacted Amazon "would often participate a Kafkaesque sequence" wherever a enactment cause wouldn't supply records related to a fraudulent relationship unless they could sanction the idiosyncratic who opened it.

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