If you have a child that made an in-app or in-game purchase on Facebook without your content then you might want to take note of this latest development. A class action lawsuit has been decided today with the California court ruling in favor of the plaintiffs. This lawsuit was originally filed by two children and their parents in 2012. Facebook has been ordered to provide refunds for those purchases at the request of the parents.
The children that filed the lawsuit against Facebook with their parents had purchased Facebook Credits, which have been rebranded as Facebook Payments, using their parents’ card without their knowledge or consent. They ended up charging up to a thousand dollars on the credit card.
Facebook’s legal team argued that the children got precisely what they paid for but the plaintiff’s counsel brought the court’s attention to the fact that they were minors and were not aware that they were using money that actually belonged to their parents.
The Guardian reports that this whole case was based on California’s Family Code which voids contracts made with those under the age of 18. Facebook is now going to have to make refunds for any and all purchases made this way. If you went through something similar, send a refund request using Facebook’s Payments support page.
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