{"id":6539,"date":"2014-09-08T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6539"},"modified":"2014-09-06T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T00:14:15","slug":"google-refunds-kids-app-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6539","title":{"rendered":"Google Refunds Kids&#8217; App Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably read about &#8212; or been concerned as a parent &#8212; how kids can use a smartphone or tablet and go on a buying spree. Especially when you have online credit or preset credit cards, little peanut can buy hundreds of dollars of apps. It&#8217;s an unpleasant surprise.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article (link below), Google recently agreed to a $19 million settlement for parents whose wee li&#8217;l snowflakes have purchased way, way too many apps.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kinda torn on the decision. While having more safeguards against accidental app purchases is nice, I believe this is more of a parenting issue than a reason to blame Google. Parental controls are available on many tablets, and I cover using them in my books. One app that definitely needs controlling is the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-to-pay-19m-settlement-in-ftc-in-app-purchase-suit\/\" target=\"_blank\">c|net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably read about &#8212; or been concerned as a parent &#8212; how kids can use a smartphone or tablet and go on a buying spree. Especially when you have online credit or preset credit cards, little peanut can buy hundreds of dollars of apps. It&#8217;s an unpleasant surprise. According to the article (link below), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}