COPPA Age Restrictions
The cluster discusses online platforms' minimum age requirements, especially 13 years old under COPPA, to prevent data collection from children, including challenges like users lying about age, parental controls, and legal compliance.
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they will fix it just like everyone else. see Facebook. just add a "must be 18" to the eula nobody ever read. and then blame the parents if you did track kids.
Where is the parental control that lets me prevent my child from signing up for a social media account with a false age?
In practice, can't that easily be resolved by prompting each user to verify they are at least 13 years old, enter their age, or enter their birthday?
isnt that all out of the gate once the kids press the "Im over 13 y.o"(or input false d.o.b) button to use their app/site?If yes, then Im not sure what it protects except false sense of security
Sounds unlikely. How would that reconcile with their minimum age requirement? 13 years for COPPA compliance, as I understand it -- though I only think about it when danah boyd brings it up.
13 years old is also the age limit for COPPA in the US, so that might be primary reason.
Er, no. There is an actual privacy law with teeth if you're under 13 ("COPPA"). Companies don't want to be subject to any such regulation, so they choose to prohibit anyone under 13 from using their services. It's widely assumed that people under 13 simply work around these prohibitions by lying about their age, but as long as the companies don't have specific knowledge of this then legally everything is fine. Making the dropdown preclude ages under 13 could be inte
Note that this is due to legal requirements around discovering a user's age in a "neutral" way, in order to block under-13 users (or varying other ages depending on global jurisdiction). This is called a "neutral age screen". The screen cannot indicate that there will be a lockout, or underage users would just say they were older to get around it. It sucks, but most apps of a certain size and liability profile have to implement it this way.
US based? Next time tell them he's 12 and made the account himself without your permission.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_...
It's not banned for under 16s, they just can't sign up.