Amazon to refund parents over kids' in-app purchases, says FTC
Parents with children who ran up bills, sometimes huge, through in-app purchases stand to get some or all of that money back. Amazon could have to hand out more than $70 million in refunds to affected consumers, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
On Tuesday, the FTC and Amazon agreed to end their legal battle over whether the U.S. company unlawfully charged its customers for the purchases.
A year ago, a court found that Amazon had.
The company's app store can be downloaded to Android devices and it runs on certain Kindle tablets. However, parents had complained that Amazon’s system had made it all too easy for their children to buy virtual items in the apps, without their consent.
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