{"id":5903,"date":"2017-04-06T15:37:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:37:46","slug":"amazon-ordered-to-refund-us70m-of-in-app-purchases-made-by-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/amazon-ordered-to-refund-us70m-of-in-app-purchases-made-by-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon ordered to refund US$70m of in-app purchases made by children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/27130921\/scaled-firehd6-kids-edition.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon will refund millions of unauthorized in-app purchases kids made on mobile devices, having now dropped its appeal of\u00a0last year\u2019s ruling\u00a0by a federal judge who sided with the Federal Trade Commission in the agency\u2019s lawsuit against Amazon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>[&#8230;] The FTC had previously settled with both Apple and Google on similar charges, before turning its sights to Amazon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now everyone&#8217;s had their turn!<\/p>\n<p>Apple got slugged with around\u00a0US$30m,\u00a0Google US$20m. Amazon seem to have it the worst! Ouch.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/04\/05\/amazon-will-refund-millions-of-unauthorized-in-app-purchases-made-by-kids\/\">Amazon will refund millions of unauthorized in-app purchases made by kids | TechCrunch<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon will refund millions of unauthorized in-app purchases kids made on mobile devices, having now dropped its appeal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}