By John Glenday

Amazon has ended a year-long fight to retain $70m of in-app purchases that were found to have been illegally billed to children, after dropping an appeal against the court’s decision.

As a result Amazon will now ‘shortly’ begin the process of refunding affected customers who were landed by outlandish bills when their children ran rampant on so-called freemium apps, which are free to download but which encourage payments for extras.

A US judge criticised Amazon’s oversight of in-app purchases back in 2016, arguing that Amazon did not offer sufficient notice to account holders when charges were being made Read full story ›

Source: The Drum