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In 2022, Epic Games settled a Federal Trade Commission complaint in part by agreeing to pay a $275 million penalty for COPPA violations. The FTC complaint alleged that Epic illegally collected personal information from children under the age of 13 and made it difficult for parents to get such information deleted.
In recent years, the FTC has taken action against video game companies that engage in deceptive or unfair practices related to in-app purchases. For example, in 2014, the FTC settled with Apple over allegations that the company allowed children to make unauthorized in-app purchases without their parents' consent. As part of the settlement ...
Status of Social Media Age Verification laws in the United States. In 2022 California passed The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act or AB 2273 which requires websites that are likely to be used by minors to estimate visitors ages to give them some amount of privacy control and on March 23, 2023, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed SB 152 and HB 311 collective known as the Utah Social ...
Fortnite’s developer Epic Games is being made to pay more than $72 million total to hundreds of thousands of gamers located in the U.S. who were “tricked” into making unwanted in-game purchases.
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game ... one for violating COPPA related to children's privacy by collecting personal data without parent or guardian consent, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two directors of Epic Games who had been appointed by Chinese gaming and social media firm Tencent Holdings resigned from the board of the Fortnite video game maker after the ...
The company powers the parental consent requirement for many games oriented at kids such as Pokémon Go. [7] Microsoft's investment arm M12 invested in the company in 2019 [8] and it was acquired in 2020 by Epic Games for just under $500 million. [9] [10]
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786 (2011), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of certain violent video games to children without parental supervision.