{"id":11888,"date":"2022-12-19T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/19\/epic-games-to-pay-540-million-over-allegations-of-privacy-violations-and-unwanted-charges\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T17:19:00","slug":"epic-games-to-pay-540-million-over-allegations-of-privacy-violations-and-unwanted-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/19\/epic-games-to-pay-540-million-over-allegations-of-privacy-violations-and-unwanted-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games To Pay $540 Million Over Allegations Of Privacy Violations And Unwanted Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fortnite developer used &#8216;dark patterns&#8217; to force unintentional purchases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Epic Games, the developer behind the massive online shooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a>, has agreed to pay a total of <strong>$540 million<\/strong> to settle allegations made by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2022\/12\/fortnite-video-game-maker-epic-games-pay-more-half-billion-dollars-over-ftc-allegations\">post on the official FTC website<\/a>, the agency confirmed that the developer will pay a $275 million penalty for violating children\u2019s privacy law along with $245 million worth of refunds for tricking users into making unwanted purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/epic-games-to-pay-usd540-million-over-allegations-of-privacy-violations-and-unwanted-charges\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Epic Games To Pay $540 Million Over Allegations Of Privacy Violations And Unwanted Charges<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fortnite developer used &#8216;dark patterns&#8217; to force unintentional purchases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Epic Games, the developer behind the massive online shooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a>, has agreed to pay a total of <strong>$540 million<\/strong> to settle allegations made by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2022\/12\/fortnite-video-game-maker-epic-games-pay-more-half-billion-dollars-over-ftc-allegations\">post on the official FTC website<\/a>, the agency confirmed that the developer will pay a $275 million penalty for violating children\u2019s privacy law along with $245 million worth of refunds for tricking users into making unwanted purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/epic-games-to-pay-usd540-million-over-allegations-of-privacy-violations-and-unwanted-charges\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}