Parents who sued Apple over in-app purchases can now claim compensation

Apple's dedicated "in-app purchases litigation administrator" has had a busy time of it. According to CNET, he or she has been emailing updates to the 23 million parents involved in a long-running class action lawsuit over unauthorized in-app bills racked up by their kids in the days before disclaimers and repeated password requests. The emails say that individual claims for compensation can now be sent to Cupertino as per the terms of the original settlement back in February. Disputed purchases under $30 will qualify for a nominal $5 iTunes voucher, while bigger losses may be fully refunded in cash -- but only those incurred within a maximum 45-day period. There's a deadline of January 13th, 2014 for at least some types of claim, by which point Apple's litigation administrator may well find themselves diverted to another urgent case.

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Source: CNET