Fortnite developer Epic Games has been fined $520 million by the Federal Trade Commission in two separate orders.
Epic Games, developer of the popular Fortnite online video game, has been involved in a high-profile legal battle with Apple after the latter removed Epic and Fortnite from the App Store. The developer offered Fortnite players the opportunity to buy in-app items through its own app storefront at a lower price since these transactions would bypass Apple's own in-app payment processing platform for which the tech giant takes a 15% to 30% cut.
If the phrase dark patterns sounds familiar, that's because we told you last month that Google reached a $391.5 million settlement with the Michigan Attorney General office over location tracking. Among other things,to get users to turn over personal information. For example, Google told users that they had to share location history with Google in order to"get the most from Google Maps." But the requested data wasn't necessary for Google Maps to work correctly.
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