Has your child bought a Facebook app without asking? You can get a refund

Facebook must provide refunds for purchases made in apps and games by children should they or their parents request it, a California court has ruled.

The decision means that hundreds of thousands of people across the US could legally claim back money from the social network. It’s the culmination of a class action lawsuit brought against the social network in February 2012 by two children and their parents over purchases of the discontinued virtual currency Facebook Credits, now known as Facebook Payments, made using the parents’ credit cards. The currency was designed as a site-wide form of payment for virtual goods within games like Farmville and Bejeweled.