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Epic Games to pay $520M for ‘failing to protect minors’

Fortnite under the magnifying glass of the authorities. | Fountain: pixabay

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A video game giant under the gun. US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has agreed to impose more than $500 million in fines from epic games.

FTC took action against the creators Fortnite for privacy offenses and unwanted charges.

Epic Games, Fortnite and vulnerable kids

The first fine of $275 million was imposed for violating Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which is the largest fine imposed in connection with this law.

FTC explain that epic games I knew the children were playing Fortnitecollecting your data without first obtaining verifiable parental consent. In addition, the company puts obstacles in the way of parents seeking to delete information about their children, sometimes even ignoring these requests.

Except FTC ensures that children and adolescents are victims of bullying, threats, harassment and traumatic situations such as suicide because they Fortnite I had real-time open communication (text and audio) with strangers.

This prompted a demand that epic Games to accept more robust default settings for kids and teens, ensuring that voice and text communication is disabled by default.

In the second fine of $245 million, epic recognizes incorrect actions when charging from its customers.

FTC indicates that epic deployed fraudulent practices even in the interface fortnite, encouraging users to make unintentional purchases. In some cases, players have even made purchases while loading Fortnite or previewing an item.

epic put children and teens at risk through careless privacy practices and cost consumers millions of dollars in illegal fees due to illegal activities,” said Samuel Levin, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection in FTC.

Source: RPP

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