Groups Ask FTC to Investigate Facebook’s Potential COPPA Violations
The FTC should investigate whether Facebook improperly targeted children for in-game purchases, 17 consumer groups wrote the agency Thursday. Common Sense Media, Center for Digital Democracy, Center for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Electronic Privacy Information Center signed. The groups…
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ask the agency to determine whether Facebook violated the FTC Act's Section 5 and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. They said internal documents show Facebook employees “called the practice ‘friendly fraud’ and referred to kids who spent large amounts of money as ‘whales,’ a casino-industry term for super high rollers.” The documents were unsealed from a 2012 class-action lawsuit settled in 2016. The company didn’t comment. The FTC confirmed receiving the letter.