Amazon Sued Over Billing for App Store Purchases
By STEVE LOHR JULY 10, 2014
Settling isn't the Amazon way, whether the dispute is with book publishers or the federal government.
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed a suit in a Federal District Court in Seattle, contending that Amazon improperly billed customers for "many millions of dollars" of charges that children made without their parents' consent. The suit focuses on charges related to games downloaded through Amazon's app store.
Amazon's mobile store, the suit states, introduced the ability to bill customers within an application - so-called in-app charges - in November 2011, and did so without parental notifications or password requirements in children's games. Often, the charges were for digital goods like coins, clothing, clues or tools that help a player progress through a game.
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