FTC fines Fortnite maker Epic Games $520M over children’s privacy charges
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Monday morning it will charge Epic Games with a $520 million settlement over charges related to children’s privacy. Epic Games, which makes popular all-ages games like “Fortnite” and “Fall Guys,” allegedly violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by deploying “design tricks, known as dark patterns, to dupe millions of players into making unintentional purchases,” the FTC said in a press release.
Lawsuit claims Google knew its ‘Incognito mode’ doesn't protect users’ privacy
It can be hard to keep track of all the lawsuits against Google.
The Department of Justice filed one in 2020 and might have another one coming soon. Texas has at least two. Arizona recently settled theirs with the search giant for $85 million. And Washington state and D.C. have lawsuits, too.
ZenPrivata® Releases Privacy by Design Capability (#PrivacyByDesign)
The Privacy by Design application enables organizations to build privacy into applications before they become an organizational liability. While others may focus on minimization, Zen Privata’s Privacy by Design is the ideal solution to prevent privacy and data security issues before they surface by addressing them before or during application development or modernization, and digitization projects.
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