Dec 26 2022
Did anyone know Epic Games had $ 500 M just laying around to fund a fine? I didn't!
and get this!
As the Wall Street Journal reports, $275 million of that total is a civil penalty for the COPPA violations, which is the largest in the law's history. The remaining $245 million are consumer refunds stemming from Epic's alleged use of "dark patterns," an emerging term for the tactics that online services use to make it difficult or burdensome to unsubscribe. Epic does not have to admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement. (emphasis added)
Seems to me this firm ought to be designing fake e mails to Russia, China, N Korea and Iran rather than subverting our children or hey how about being put out of business!
Professor Elam 
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