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Article: Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox: Settlement Reached Over Charges for Adult Web Site Access; New Safeguards Aimed at Keeping Kids Off of Adult Sites.
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- PR Newswire
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- January 14, 2005
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LANSING, Mich., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Acting on approximately 175 consumer complaints, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has joined a multi- state settlement requiring adult Web sites change their billing practices to keep children from accessing the sites, announced Cox today.
Consumers claimed they were billed $4.99 per minute by Alyon Technologies for access to adult Web sites they neither visited nor agreed to purchase. In some cases, clicking on an innocent looking pop-up window triggered the download of adult material. In others, children were exposed to adult sites without parental permission, and parents were later billed.
"This case ...