An official website of the United States governmentWe enforce federal competition and consumer protection laws that prevent anticompetitive, deceptive, and unfair business practices. In addition to the monetary penalty, Microsoft will be required under the proposed order to:Inform parents who have not created a separate account for their child that doing so will provide additional privacy protections for their child by default;Obtain parental consent for accounts created before May 2021 if the account holder is still a child;Establish and maintain systems to delete, within two weeks from the collection date, all personal information that it collects from children for the purposes of obtaining parental consent if it has not obtained parental consent and to delete all other personal data collected from children after it is no longer necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected; andNotify video game publishers when it discloses personal information from children that the user is a child, which will require the publishers to apply COPPA’s protections to that child. Blog: $20 million FTC settlement addresses Microsoft Xbox illegal collection of kids’ data: A game changer for COPPA compliance