Fortnite ‘broke the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’
The FTC has ruled that the company has broken the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and “deployed design tricks, known as dark patterns, to dupe millions of players into making unintentional purchases.”
The report also claims: “Players could be charged while attempting to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item.”
Further, the report states that those who dispute the claims with their card holders were often locked out of their accounts which could include other in-game purchases.
