The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized an order requiring Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, to pay $245 million to consumers. The FTC accused Epic of using dark patterns to trick players into making unwanted purchases and allowing children to make unauthorized charges without parental consent. The complaint stated that Fortnite’s confusing button configuration …
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized its order with education technology provider Chegg Inc. for its lax data security practices. Chegg failed to protect sensitive information, resulting in four data breaches that exposed the personal data of about 40 million users and employees. The order requires Chegg to implement a comprehensive information security program, …
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have charged Amazon with violating children’s privacy laws by keeping Alexa voice recordings of kids indefinitely and undermining parents’ deletion requests. The FTC alleges that Amazon prevented parents from exercising their deletion rights, kept sensitive voice and geolocation data for years, and used it …