[28249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Federal Law (COPPA)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Fri Apr 21 23:28:43 2000
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:26:39 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: John Hall <j.hall@f5.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
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In-Reply-To: <3900D251.508EB85@f5.com>; from j.hall@f5.com on Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 03:12:33PM -0700
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>IANAL, but my reading of the law and FTC's requirements confirms your
>suspicion. Once you ask their age, then you materially "know" it and
>become subject to this law. Better not to ask their age or not collect
>any info, if their age is 13 or below.
ianal either.
i was actually implying that if you asked and found out they were 12,
you've just broken the law. the only problem (as i see it) is there's
no way for you to collect the age information *without* possibly
breaking the law.
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