Yelp has agreed to settle charges brought against it by the Federal Trade Commission and pay $450,000 for accepting registrations from children under the age of 13 in its app, PCWorld reports. In 2009, the company introduced a registration feature in its app that allowed users to create new accounts “but failed to implement a working age-screen mechanism in the new in-app registration feature,” the report states. In turn, data was collected about children through the app. Yelp wrote about the settlement in a blog post and has agreed to destroy the personal information of children collected by the bug within 30 days of the service of the order.
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