FTC Sues Amazon Over In-App Purchases By Kids

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It looks like it's Amazon's turn to get sued by the FTC over in-app purchases by children. Time to bust out that check book.

The lawsuit, filed by the Federal Trade Commission, seeks to make the online retailer refund money spent without parental permission and to end Amazon's practice of allowing purchases without requiring a password or other mechanism that gives parents control over their accounts.
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Fire OS on Kindles and the Amazon App Store app have built-in parental control settings that prevent purchases without a password. This is just another case of parents screwing up and blaming someone else.
 
Whenever our son bought apps on his kindle fire amazon refunded us and allowed us to keep the apps. It's happened 2 or 3 times now.
 
As above, this is just another case of parents not wanting to take responsibility for watching their own children and securing their devices.
 
Had this happen to my cousin when her daughter purchased about $60 in games in the Apple app store on her iPad.
Why did it happen?
Because she disabled needing a password so she wouldn't be bothered with a password every purchase on her iPhone. Well, you disable password protect on an account, not a device.
Whoops.
Apple gave her a refund, made it where she needed a password every purchase again and kindly let her know next time there wouldn't be a refund, so either keep the password or keep the iPad away from the kid.
Honestly what would be nice is if you could designate by device on each account or make "child" subaccounts that had access to parental account apps and music by age restiction that didn't allow purchases.
Would it be that hard?
 
So if I had a password remembered by my browser so I don't have to actually enter a password isn't that the same?
 
sfsuphysics said:
So if I had a password remembered by my browser so I don't have to actually enter a password isn't that the same?
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You ever make a purchase off of an etailer?
Even if you store your credit card info, you still need the 3 digit secure code off the back of your card so unless your kid digs out your card they can't sneak order Barbies or video games "on accident."
If you're a parent, keep a password on your account, its that simple. If you're lazy or dumb enough where typing a 8 character alphanumeric code each purchase is too much for you, maybe you shouldn't have had kids.
 
1. I can't believe Amazon doesn't usually refund people. I've had complaints over the years and they've never left me hanging.

2. The tablet is not a babysitter, you worthless fucking lumps of flesh. Your kid did something while left unsupervised and you want someone else to pay for it? Then I hope you die in a car fire and your kid gets a trust fund with the insurance settlement. Best thing the kid could hope for, from the apparent quality of your parenting skills.
 
SGA76 said:
You ever make a purchase off of an etailer?
Even if you store your credit card info, you still need the 3 digit secure code off the back of your card so unless your kid digs out your card they can't sneak order Barbies or video games "on accident."
If you're a parent, keep a password on your account, its that simple. If you're lazy or dumb enough where typing a 8 character alphanumeric code each purchase is too much for you, maybe you shouldn't have had kids.
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Actually, doesn't the one click buy without any other interaction? I never used it, but the name implies that.
 
w4ffles said:
Fire OS on Kindles and the Amazon App Store app have built-in parental control settings that prevent purchases without a password. This is just another case of parents screwing up and blaming someone else.
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Its like the ole hot coffee lawsuit. stupidity makes people millions in America.
 
The FTC won't lets kids be free, won't let kids be kids so let me see; they tried to shut down the app fees but it feels so empty without sprees
 
old news, amazon alreary settled, the law suit.
I have too agree with people here, its not amazon fault for iresponsible parent that don't monitor
their children.
 
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