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Thank you. Wondry. I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Thursday, January 12.

Today, a story about crime, punishment, and video games. Epic games, that's the

company behind Fortnite, had to pay a rather Epic fine to the Federal Trade Commission recently.

$520 million, to be specific, divided into two separate settlements. Epic will pay $275 million for allegedly violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or Kappa.

That's the largest ever penalty for violating an FTC rule, according to TechCrunch.

Epic will also dole out another $245 million to refund customers for what the FTC calls, quote, dark patterns, end

quote. Sounds ominous. And according to the FTC, ominous is probably the right word for what

Epic Games was doing. 400 million people around the world play Fortnite, and a substantial number of

those players are kids under 13, the FTC claimed.

Kids registering for the game would be required to share their names and email addresses,

often without parental consent.

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