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RE: New Federal Law (COPPA)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Mon Apr 24 11:59:09 2000

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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Hank Nussbacher'" <hank@att.net.il>,
	"'Robert Cannon'" <rmcannon@mail.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:57:21 -0700
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Not too ...
It could not find DOB for either me, my wife, or my daughter. But then, =
I've practiced active information control for over 25 years. Others =
bleed information like sieves hold water. If there were no oblivious =
sheep, the wolves would start hunting us "harder to find" critters. =
<grin>


> Hank Nussbacher
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:08 AM
>=20
> At 09:48 24/04/00 -0400, Robert Cannon wrote:
>=20
> Or take the persons name and zip and feed it into:
> http://anybirthday.com/search.htm
> to get the person's date of birth.
>=20
> Scary, huh?!
>=20
> -Hank
>=20
> >
> >One website that collects personal data had a field for Date=20
> of Birth.  If
> >you entered a DOB that meant that you were underaged, the=20
> webpage refused to
> >go further.  Thus, the webpage could collect the data where=20
> individual was
> >of legal age but would just automatically refuse if under=20
> 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)=20
> is there's
> >no way for you to collect the age information *without* possibly
> >breaking the law.

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