Mat Peterson is the founder of_Shiny Things, a Sydney based app development company building educational apps aligned with educational curriculums. In-app purchases (IAPs) aren’t popular with parents. Cases of children racking up hundreds of dollars worth of IAPs, unwittingly funded by their parents’ bank accounts, are becoming increasingly common. You don’t have to look far to find horror stories about IAPs. Apple was forced to pay nearly $32.5 million to a group of parents in the US after complaints their kids had amassed huge bills through IAPs made without consent. Similarly, Ilana Imber-Gluck has filed a class action suit against...

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