WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – Microsoft pays $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Commerce Fee costs that the tech firm illegally collected private data from kids with out their mother and father’ consent, the FTC stated on Monday.
The corporate had been charged with violating the U.S. Youngsters’s On-line Privateness Safety Act (COPPA) by accumulating private data from kids who signed as much as its Xbox gaming system with out notifying their mother and father or acquiring their mother and father’ consent, and by retaining kids’s private data, the FTC stated in a press release.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Enhancing by Jacqueline Wong)
