Epic Games agreed with the FTC to pay a $520M fine for Fortnite's privacy practices that harmed kids and the shady in-app purchase tricks.
Epic Games is the company behind the popular game Fortnite and the company that would like to host its own app store on iPhone and charge players through its own payment system. Epic intentionally caused Apple toso it could the Cupertino-based giant, but it lost that case. And now, Epic Games will have to pay two record fines totaling a combined $520 million after settling with the Federal Trade Commission .
The $275 million penalty for violating the COPPA Rule is the largest such fine. On top of that, Epic will have to adopt strong default privacy settings for children and teens, in a provision the FTC calls a “first-of-its-kind.” Epic didn’t change the default settings even when employees expressed concern or when people complained online about child harassment. When it finally added a button to turn voice chat off, “Epic made it difficult for users to find.”
Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button. For example, players could be charged while attempting to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item. These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges for consumers.
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Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay $520M to settle FTC casesVideo game company Epic Games, maker of Fortnite, will pay a total of $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints involving children’s privacy and methods that tricked players into making purchases, U.S. federal regulators said.
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Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay $520M to settle FTC casesVideo game company Epic Games is paying a total of $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints involving children's privacy and methods that tricked players into making purchases.
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Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay $520M to settle FTC casesVideo game company Epic Games is paying a total of $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints involving children's privacy and methods that tricked players into making purchases.
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Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay $520M to settle FTC casesVideo game company Epic Games is paying a total of $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints involving children's privacy and methods that tricked players into making purchases.
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Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay $520M to settle FTC casesVideo game company Epic Games is paying a total of $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints involving children's privacy and methods that tricked players into making purchases.
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‘Fortnite’ Maker Epic Games Will Pay Record $520M in FTC Privacy and Billing SettlementOf the total, $275 million is a penalty related to allegations that the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and $245 million is a refund to customers for unwanted in-game purchases.
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