EU Tells Apple, Google: Limit in-App Purchasing - InformationWeek
As U.S. regulators continue to press mobile platform providers for failing to prevent children from making unauthorized purchases in apps, European regulators are doing the same.
On Friday, EU Commissioner for Consumer Policy Neven Mimica said in a statement that EU efforts to stop children from conducting in-app transactions without permission have been going well. “[C]hildren must be better protected when playing online,” he said.
EU Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) authorities have decided that games advertised as “free” should not misrepresent the cost to consumers. In response, Google has removed the term “free” from Google Play store listings that describe games containing its In-app Billing API, even if that API is not actually used.
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