Mobile developers TinyCo, the company behind Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, have been found to have improperly collected the data of its users, many of which are under the age of 13. They've been fined $300,000 as a result.
TinyCo offered in-game currency if users supplied them with their email, but didn't ask players if they had their parents' permission.
TinyCo have released the following statement:
"Today TinyCo settled with the FTC over COPPA violations in some of our older games. We have worked with the FTC to correct these issues, and have removed all email addresses collected by our old in-game social identity system, some of which may have belonged to children under the age of 13.
TinyCo fully supports COPPA and the FTC’s effort to protect the privacy and data of children online. We apologize to anyone affected by this issue, and want to be unequivocal in stating that TinyCo is fully committed to protecting user privacy, particularly when children are involved."
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