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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 to ban Fortnite from iPhone so 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 (FTC).
Epic will pay $275 million for violating a children's privacy law (COPPA) and it'll issue $245 million in refunds for using dark patterns to trick users into paying for in-app content.
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By: Chris Smith
Title: Epic Games fined record $520M for tricking children into buying content
Sourced From: bgr.com/tech/epic-games-fined-record-520m-for-tricking-children-into-buying-content/
Published Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:24:00 +0000
