“Fortnite” creator Epic Games will pay $520-million to settle allegations that it violated a children’s privacy law and tricked people into making purchases, the Federal Trade Commission and the company said on Monday.
It will pay $275-million for violating the privacy law and has agreed to adopt strong default privacy settings for young people. It will also pay $245-million to refund consumers duped by so-called “dark patterns” into making purchased they did not intend to make, the FTC said. “Epic used privacy-invasive default settings and deceptive interfaces that tricked Fortnite users, including teenagers and children,” said FTC Chair Lina Khan in a statement.
“Protecting the public, and especially children, from online privacy invasions and dark patterns is a top priority for the Commission.”
I wonder if they'll do the same thing to make the class-action suit against them in Quebec go away.
“Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay $520-million to settle U.S. FTC cases” We hear a lot about cases against drug companies and other entities in the States where there are huge settlements. Why are there none in Canada? We have an opioid crisis too, for example.