EST. MMXXVI · A PUBLIC RECORD
2 CONFESSIONS · 42 CASESConfess
CR-02813.07.MMXXVI

I designed a children's game where the currency was deliberately confusing — gems buy coins, coins buy turns — so a seven-year-old couldn't tell play-money from the family credit card. The purchase flow had no friction by design. Parents' refund requests were a metric someone else owned.

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Source US District Court, W.D. Wash. — FTC v. Amazon.com, Inc., No. C14-1038-JCC, summary judgment (2016)

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Child exploitationUnderage targetingPredatory onboarding

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