Amazon’s in for a good fight with the FTC over in-app purchases

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/6xeKj5CTGCj2lRwCBdaN4w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/amazon-kindle-in-app-purchase-1.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-good-fight-ftc-over-app-purchases-004535559.html)Apple recently acknowledged its in-app purchases issues that allowed children to purchase content without requiring verification and settled the FTC case agreeing to refund some $32 million in fraudulent in-app charges. But-Amazon doesn’t want to go down without a fight, GigaOm reports, as the same Commission is investigating its own in-app purchase problems related to the Amazon Appstore that’s available on Android devices. The FTC wants a court order requiring refunds to consumers for the unauthorized charges, and to permanently ban Amazon from billing parents and other account holders for in-app purchases made without consent. In Apple’s case, the company-refunded buyers and has taken various steps to prevent unwanted in-app purchases. Apparently thousands of Amazon customers complained that their children



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