Apple recently acknowledged its in-app purchases issues that allowed children to purchase content without requiring verification and settled the FTC case agreeing to refund some $32 million in fraudulent in-app charges. But Amazon doesn’t want to go down without a fight, GigaOm reports, as the same Commission is investigating its own in-app purchase problems related to the Amazon Appstore that’s available on Android devices. The FTC wants a court order requiring refunds to consumers for the unauthorized charges, and to permanently ban Amazon from billing parents and other account holders for in-app purchases made without consent. In Apple’s case, the company refunded buyers and has taken various steps to prevent unwanted in-app purchases. Apparently thousands of Amazon customers complained that their children
Amazon’s in for a good fight with the FTC over in-app purchases
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