Online and mobile games can manipulate children as young as three into purchases, warns report
Children as young as three are manipulated into making online purchases in many mobile and online games, according to Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC).
Children as young as three are manipulated into making online purchases in many mobile and online games, according to Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC).
The CCPC was one of 20 consumer agencies taking part in an international sweep of 439 mobile and online games to identify potential consumer harms. The sweep, coordinated by the International Consumer Protection Enforcement Network (ICPEN), found several design techniques that may aim to manipulate players as young as three into making decisions or purchases they wouldn’t otherwise make.
