Apps firm fined £250k for 'misleading' subscriptions in children's apps

UK regulator PhonepayPlus says one parent charged more than £100 after child signed up through battery-life upgrade app Premium-rate telephone watchdog PhonepayPlus has fined an Australian company £250k for a 'misleading' app promising to boost smartphone battery life, which was advertised within other developers' children's apps. CommandM PTY Limited's app signed people up to a £4.50-a-week premium-rate subscription, but the fact that it was advertised within children's apps including ABC Ma...