Mobile game developer TinyCo apologizes to the feds for improper marketing toward children

Mobile game developer TinyCo is sorry.

The San Francisco-based iOS and Android studio settled with the Federal Trade Commission yesterday and apologized for its transgression. TinyCo paid a $300,000 fine for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The feds said the studio was marketing its games, such as Tiny Monsters and Tiny Village, to kids under 13 — and collecting their personal identifications, a no-no under law.