FTC complaint involved child privacy and unintended purchases

Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced today that it will pay a total of $520 million in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The total amount is accrued between two complaints, over privacy violations and tricking players into unintended purchases.

The FTC originally claimed that Epic violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, by collecting personal data from children without obtaining...

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