Microsoft agrees to pay the Federal Trade Commission $20 million for collecting personal information on Xbox players younger than 13 and not properly informing parents.
The settlement was announced Monday evening and must be approved by a federal court before taking effect.
The United States has few meaningful digital privacy regulations. One, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, requires for-profit companies to alert parents before storing information on children younger than 13 longer than necessary and to give parents the choice to prevent that information from being shared with third parties.
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