[STEAM] Fortnite players receive $126 million more in refunds from the FTC over Epic's "deceptive billing practices"

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The American Federal Trade Commission has given out a further $126 million (around £91 million) in refunds to

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players who've been "charged for unwanted purchases", bringing the overall total issued so far to about $200 million. It's also given eligible players who're yet to submit a refund claim some extra time to do so.

These refunds are the ongoing fallout to a pair of complaints made to the FTC over Fortnite, which Epic opted to

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by paying a combined total of $520 million (£427 million). Epic were accused of breaching the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting data on under 13 Fortnite players without parental consent, and deliberately using tactics such as confusing button placements intended to push folks into buying cosmetics from the Fortnite store unintentionally.

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