Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards

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Post by DamnInteresting » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 5:34 AM UTC

Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards
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Post by CaveTech » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 6:31 AM UTC

None of this is unique to Facebook - it plagues the entire industry. I would even argue that games companies are far more complicit in this scheme than any service provider.

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Post by senectus1 » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 6:36 AM UTC

CaveTech wrote: post #2

None of this is unique to Facebook - it plagues the entire industry. I would even argue that games companies are far more complicit in this scheme than any service provider.

true, but Facebook is an order of magnitude larger, more integrated and more powerful than the others.

They need to Drawn and Quartered publicly to clean them up. Each of these articles adds up to something very scary.

I expect Amazon is due to a truth telling as well.

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Post by quickthrower2 » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 6:37 AM UTC

We so need credit card tech that puts the card holder in control. Like a 2fa message to accept every single charge no matter how small.

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Post by baxtr » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 6:39 AM UTC

CaveTech wrote: post #2

None of this is unique to Facebook - it plagues the entire industry. I would even argue that games companies are far more complicit in this scheme than any service provider.

I think this is a lot about “transferring insight”. Like this: if FB knowingly duped kids and their parents, where else have they knowingly duped people? Elections? Data? Etc

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Post by yeuxverte » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 6:39 AM UTC

Is anyone surprised that 11 year-old Johnny "didn't realize" he was spending money? Sounds like parents looking to blame anybody but themselves.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 6:46 AM UTC

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Post by loteck » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 7:00 AM UTC

Why is this submission marked as a dupe?

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Post by loteck » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 7:06 AM UTC

yeuxverte wrote: post #6

Is anyone surprised that 11 year-old Johnny "didn't realize" he was spending money? Sounds like parents looking to blame anybody but themselves.

Source documents are linked throughout the story.

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Post by chemmail » Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 7:29 AM UTC

It's like facebook are all those evil corporations you see in movies.