Developer Broken Thumbs Apps has a settlement of $ 50,000 made with the U.s. Federal Trade Commission. The spelletjesmaker had collected personal information of children under thirteen years of age.
Broken Thumbs Apps at games, especially for children are aimed, not know the company personally identifiable information collects. The developer had to do this in all cases, the consent of the parents. Because that wasn’t the case, has Broken Thumbs Apps the Coppa law, as made market authority FTC known. The FTC rebuked the developer for the collection of e-mail addresses in his games and because of it provide the opportunity for children to disclose personal information on the in the games related forums.
In addition to paying the settlement of $ 50,000 should the developer also the collected information to remove. Broken Thumbs Apps makes particularly girls-oriented games for Apple’s iOS, that downloaded from the App Store.