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it is interesting. those kindle fire games, buying coins and stars, inner app purchases, wracking up lots of dollars on the family bill. the government suing amazon. amazon fighting back, ahead after the break. ....
For charging parents millions of illegal billings. so the federal trade commission is suing amazon accusing the internet retail giant of letting kids make unlimited purchases in the app store and forcing parents to pay for it. the kindle fire games without a pass word or even parental consent. amazon gets a 30 percent chunk of those purchase dollars while total amount of purchases is not known. one woman told the fcc her daughter wraps up 3 r5 $358 without her knowledge. enamel zon even amazon s own employees recognize the problem it created. amazon revised policy last month to require consent from account holders. apple reached a settlement by the same issue and agreed to ....
Millions of dollars that wound up on the kindle fire bill. it s money that the kids racked up playing video games. regulators call that practice illegal. christine romans is joining us from new york. are we going to see all the parents get refunds, christine? you know what, parents has been complaining about this for a long time and they re suing. they allowed kids to purpose the items without requiring a password for too long. they re looking they re looking for money for refunds for all the parents affected. it could be in the millions of dollars because apple apple settled with the ftc over a similar issue. that refund was $32.5 million. amazon says it s already refunded some of the charges. amazon says that even recently, now they re requiring passwords for all all purchases inside the kindle fire games. but in fact, the government ....