Apple has settled a $100 million class action suit with parents who demanded the return of money their kids blew on app store spending splurges they never authorized.
The settlement stems from a suit first filed in 2011 in the wake of a Washington Post report about naughty kids using parents’ hard-earned money to buy games and game add-ons for their iPhones and iPads.
Apple will make amends with cash or iTunes credits of $5 for parents claiming the lowest losses, with restitution going up from there.
Prior to the suit the surge of complaints that ensued from the WaPo article caught the eyes of the Federal Trade Commission.
The agency ‘vowed to look closely into the marketing practices of such apps, especially as they related to children’ according to ABC News.
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