KEILAR: Well, this could be a game changer for many parents. The FTC is suing Amazon over millions of dollars that wound up on the family Kindle Fire bill. It's money that the kids racked up playing video games and the parents had no idea until they got the bill. Regulators call that practice illegal. Chief business correspondent, Christine Romans, joining us now from New York. Are we going to see all these parents get refunds, Christine?</s>ROMANS: Well, you know what? Parents have been complaining about this for some time and Amazon says it has been, it has been refunding people. But the government says, they're suing saying that Amazon didn't do enough. You know, they say they allowed kids to purchase these items without requiring a password for too long. They're looking for -- they're looking for money for refunds for all the parents who were affected. No word on how much that could be, but it could be in the millions of dollars because Apple -- Apple settled with the FTC over a similar issue. That refund was $32.5 million. Amazon says it has already refunded some of these charges. Amazon says that just even recently, now they're requiring passwords for all -- all purchases inside those Kindle Fire games. But in fact, the government still going after Amazon.</s>KEILAR: You would expect Amazon to settle, what do you think?</s>ROMANS: Well, you know, Amazon is not settling like Apple did. Amazon is fighting it. This is what they say, they say their case is different than Apple's. And they go out and say, this is what the General Counsel says, he says "It is an understatement to say that this response is deeply disappointing. The commission's unwillingness to depart from the precedent it set with Apple, despite our very different facts, leaves us no choice but to defend our approach in court." The stock by the way is up a little bit -- it was up a little bit earlier so we'll watch that one to see if this has any effect on the stock.</s>KEILAR: All right, Christine Romans, thank you. And NEWSROOM is back in a moment.
FTC Suing Amazon Over Surprise bills