The company will be forced to strengthen privacy safeguards for children who use the Xbox system.
Microsoft has agreed to pay a $20 million fine to settle charges regarding the illegal collection and retention of children’s data on its Xbox gaming console, according to aThe company is accused of gathering and holding the data without parental consent, violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which protects the privacy of children under the age of 13 and gives parents control over what information websites can collect from their kids, according to the FTC.
“Our proposed order makes it easier for parents to protect their children’s privacy on Xbox, and limits what information Microsoft can collect and retain about kids,” said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “This action should also make it abundantly clear that kids’ avatars, biometric data, and health information are not exempt from COPPA.
Microsoft also fixed “a technical glitch where our systems did not delete account creation data for child accounts where the account creation process was started but not completed,” McCarthy said.
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