The tech giant used data collected from child Xbox users without telling parents, US regulators say.
Microsoft will pay $20m to US federal regulators after it was found to have illegally collected data on children who had started Xbox accounts.
The law requires online services and websites directed towards children to obtain a parent's consent and to inform the parent about personal data being collected about their child. From 2015 to 2020 Microsoft retained data "sometimes for years" from the account set up, even when a parent failed to complete the process, the FTC said in aThe company also failed to inform parents about all the data it was collecting, including the user's profile picture and that data was being distributed to third parties.
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