[28285] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Federal Law (COPPA)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Buchalski)
Mon Apr 24 10:21:09 2000
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From: "Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@hotmail.com>
To: rmcannon@mail.com, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:04:03 PDT
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This is great, but I wonder how long it will be before ISPs and web hosting
providers are considered liable if a kid lies about his/hee age, reasoning
that the liar is underage and isn't considered responsible for him/herself.
It's still up to parents to make sure that their kids are surfing the
Internet responsibly, but I don't know that the law assumes this in order to
protect ISPs.
-rb
>From: Robert Cannon <rmcannon@mail.com>
>To: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: Re: New Federal Law (COPPA)
>Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:48:06 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>One website that collects personal data had a field for Date of Birth. If
>you entered a DOB that meant that you were underaged, the webpage refused
>to go further. Thus, the webpage could collect the data where individual
>was of legal age but would just automatically refuse if under age. This
>doesnt seem too hard.
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