{"id":663,"date":"2013-03-13T08:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2013-03-13T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:46:13","slug":"bad-apple-whos-to-blame-for-kids-in-game-shopping-sprees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/bad-apple-whos-to-blame-for-kids-in-game-shopping-sprees\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Apple? Who&#8217;s To Blame For Kids&#8217; In-Game Shopping Sprees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/internet-safety\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LynetteOwens_Trend_bw_edit2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-600\" title=\"LynetteOwens_Trend_bw_edit\" src=\"\/internet-safety\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LynetteOwens_Trend_bw_edit2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Lynette Owens<\/p>\n<p><em><em>The following\u00a0is an excerpt from a\u00a0guest post that originally\u00a0appeared in\u00a0 Forbes on March 11. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a story about Apple and a group of angry parents whose kids did something they shouldn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n<p>It involves allegedly deceptive marketing practices, app-loving minors, parents who can afford to let their kids have or use Apple devices, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business\/ci_22671921\/apple-plans-pay-parents-100-million-itunes-credits\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">class-action lawsuit<\/a> against one of the most cash rich companies in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But the story within this story is one that underscores the challenge we face in helping our kids be safe and responsible tech enthusiasts: Whose job is it?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Root of the Problem<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In April 2011, five parents took issue with Apple because they believed the company tricked their kids into racking up hundreds of dollars in credit-card charges playing supposedly free games.\u00a0 Once they were hooked, kids could easily continue the fun by buying items or more time with the tap of a screen.<\/p>\n<p>Apple says that while games are often free to download, there will be options to use real money while playing it.\u00a0 There are two features in iOS to stop this: a restriction that turns off in-app purchasing and a password required for any charge on the iTunes account for that device. (The second of these features was added right around the time the lawsuit was filed.)<\/p>\n<p>However, we may never see these arguments play out in court. In the end, Apple chose not to fight the battle and agreed to a $100 million settlement.\u00a0 Even to the technology novice, it is clear there\u2019s plenty of blame to go around.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on\u00a0Forbes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/iRUeU\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a story about Apple and a group of angry parents whose kids did something they shouldn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n<p>It involves allegedly deceptive marketing practices, app-loving minors, parents who can afford to let their kids have or use Apple devices, and a class-action lawsuit against one of the most cash rich companies in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[83,84,13,8,47,6,5,11,48,66,10,57],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-apple","tag-apps","tag-cell-phones","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-digital-literacy","tag-education","tag-internet-safety","tag-kids","tag-media-literacy","tag-mobile","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}