[28286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Federal Law (COPPA)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Mon Apr 24 10:25:15 2000
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:08:17 +0200
To: Robert Cannon <rmcannon@mail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
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At 09:48 24/04/00 -0400, Robert Cannon wrote:
Or take the persons name and zip and feed it into:
http://anybirthday.com/search.htm
to get the person's date of birth.
Scary, huh?!
-Hank
>
>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.
>
>-B
>www.cybertelecom.org
>
>------Original Message------
>From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
>To: John Hall <j.hall@f5.com>
>Sent: April 22, 2000 3:26:39 AM GMT
>Subject: Re: New Federal Law (COPPA)
>
>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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