Re: COPPA Privacy Disclosures

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

James S. Huggins (Ringlink) wrote:

First, the Center for Media Education doesn't think much of my approach.
See their report on the "first year" of COPPA (April 2000 - April 2001)
http://www.cme.org/children/privacy/coppa_rept.pdf It includes a section
that says,

[quote]
7. In attempting to restrict children under 13 from entering personally
identifiable information, some Web sites use methods that could
encourage age falsification.
[end quote]

;-)

<personal view>
That proves what sensible people are able to anticipate without investigations, namely that the kind of legislation that COPPA represents is more or less meaningless if you want to do something about the real problem. But politicians can say: "Look, we did something", and the lawyers make some bucks.
</personal view>

/ Gunnar