{"id":1156,"date":"2016-11-17T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2016-11-13T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T05:36:07","slug":"amazon-ordered-to-refund-childrens-in-app-purchases-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/amazon-ordered-to-refund-childrens-in-app-purchases-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon ordered to refund children&#8217;s in-app purchases &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-37954308\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/11\/92403739_thinkstockphotos-505899526.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>A judge has ordered Amazon to refund the parents of children who made in-app purchases on Kindle and Android devices without their consent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A judge has ordered Amazon to refund the parents of children who made in-app purchases on Kindle and Android devices without their consent between 2011 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based Judge John Coughenour ordered the firm to run the refund process for 12 months beginning in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It follows successful legal action by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).<\/p>\n<p>However the FTC&#8217;s call for a lump refund of $25.6m (\u00a320m) was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Coughenour said the figure was &#8220;too high&#8221;, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>He also turned down Amazon&#8217;s request to offer reimbursement in the form of gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>The option of paying for extra content inside mobile apps such as games and music platforms was launched by Amazon and other platforms in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Parents complained that it was too easy for children to make purchases, either by accident or without authorisation, while playing games.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC launched legal action in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-37954308\">Amazon ordered to refund children&#8217;s in-app purchases &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ordered Amazon to refund the parents of children who made in-app purchases on Kindle and Android devices without their consent. A judge has ordered Amazon to refund the parents of children who made in-app purchases on Kindle and Android devices without their consent between 2011 and 2014. Seattle-based Judge John Coughenour ordered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,36],"tags":[184,64,185],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-news","tag-refund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}