WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Microsoft can pay $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Commerce Fee expenses that the tech firm illegally collected private info from youngsters with out their dad and mom’ consent, the FTC mentioned on Monday.
The corporate had been charged with violating the U.S. Kids’s On-line Privateness Safety Act (COPPA) by amassing private info from youngsters who signed as much as its Xbox gaming system with out notifying their dad and mom or acquiring their dad and mom’ consent, and by retaining youngsters’s private info, the FTC mentioned in an announcement.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Modifying by Jacqueline Wong)
