Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fines video game publisher HyperBeard $150,000 for illegally collecting children’s data

You shouldn’t and can’t save children’s data!!! This is not much difficult to understand but companies have over the years been disregarding this basic tech tenet with impunity. First, it was TikTok who is being investigated by Dutch privacy watchdog for collecting children’s data and allowing access to children. Now it is the turn of children’s video game publisher, Hyperbeard has been fined $150,000 for collecting children’s data illegally.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had fined children’s app developer HyperBeard for $4 million but the company pleaded it only had $150,000 to pay for allegedly collecting children’s data in an unlawful way. The (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) U.S. antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection including privacy.

On June 4, the Joseph Simmon’s led FTC announced that HyperBeard had agreed to pay a fine of $150,000. FTC also said that Hyperbeard will all the information it had collected from children under the age of 13 in order to settle allegations against it.

FTC’s actions come after a complaint was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC. The complaint alleged that Hyperbeard was collecting children’s data in basic violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule).

The complaint also alleged that…

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