FILE PHOTO: The entrance sign to Facebook headquarters is seen in Menlo Park, California, on Wednesday, October 10, 2018. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo
Facebook Inc is confronting another complaint about its online practices – this time from US privacy advocates that are concerned the company tricked children into making purchases while playing games on the social network.
The organisations, which include Common Sense Media, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Centre for Digital Democracy, argued in a letter to the US Federal Trade Commission that Facebook may have engaged in unlawful “unfair or deceptive practices” and violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA, and requested that the agency conduct an investigation.
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