Epic Games has not requested parental consent. It also retained the default communications privacy settings.
Epic gamesvideo game developer and maker of Fortnite, has reached an agreement in the United States to pay 520 million (491 million euros) for violating the legislation that prohibits the privacy of minors of legal age and for introducing deceptive mechanisms to encourage purchases in their games.
As reported by the country’s Ministry of Justice, Epic has been fined $275 million (260 million euros) for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (Coppa, for its acronym in English).
Specifically, the country’s justice has found that Epic Games marketed Fortnite to children and knowingly collected information from minors, including names, email addresses, and identifiers to track their progress, purchases, settings, friend lists, etc. know. Despite this, Epic Games not asked for permission from the parents, something required by law to carry out such succession. It also retained the default communications privacy settings.
As part of this case, Epic will not be able to use any information from minors it has illegally collected. delete certain data and you must ensure that voice and text communications from minors are turned off by default.
In a parallel case, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) forced Epic Games to do so back 245 million dollars (232 million euros) to consumers. This is because that money was obtained illegally by creating a series of deceptive practices and designs specifically designed to generate purchases by Epic, something known as “dark patterns.”
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Source: EITB
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