Toy-maker VTech to pay US$650,000 to settle FTC charges over children’s privacy violations

The VTech InnoPad. VTech Electronics has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it collected personal information on hundreds of thousands of children without their parents knowing. (VTech/PRNewsFoto)

An electronic toy-maker has agreed to pay US$650,000 (RM2.58mil) to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it collected personal information on hundreds of thousands of children without their parents knowing. 

VTech Electronics, whose North American operations are based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, says it did notify parents and the allegations are based on technical provisions of a children's privacy law.