Google Inc. will pay at least $19 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company unfairly billed consumers for millions of dollars of unauthorized charges incurred by children using mobile apps from the Google Play app store.
The deal follows a similar settlement with Apple Inc. in January for $32.5 million for unauthorized children’s mobile app charges. The FTC in July also went after Amazon.com for unauthorized app charges in a case that’s pending in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
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