Apple Inc. will pay at least $32.5 million in consumer refunds to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it wrongly billed parents millions of dollars for unauthorized charges incurred by their children in kids’ mobile apps.
The company, which settled a private class action over the same conduct in October, likened the settlement to “double jeopardy,” as Apple CEO Tim Cook put it in a letter to employees, and FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright dissented from the deal, arguing the FTC did not meet its burden of proof.
