{
  "id": "CON-074",
  "slug": "con-074",
  "title": "The \"not a condition of purchase\" claim must be true in practice",
  "statement": "Where the disclosure says consent is not a condition of purchase, the form or checkout must actually complete with the SMS box unticked.",
  "rationale": "Ranked #7 most-missed. The sentence is necessary but not sufficient: reviewers test the behaviour, and a form that validates the consent box as required contradicts its own disclosure. Passing the wording check while failing the behaviour is the classic false green.",
  "layer": "CONSENT_FLOW",
  "layerSlug": "consent-flow",
  "object": "consent surface behaviour",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "AI_FORM"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_WEBSITE",
  "authorities": [
    "FCC",
    "TCR",
    "Twilio",
    "AWS"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Remove required-field validation from the consent control and submit the form with it unticked to confirm it completes. Fix the form, not the sentence.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-074/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-074.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}