if they were actually 9 whatever website this is, twitter maybe? idk, would have taken it down ASAP as its undoubtedly US based and US law doesnt allow data collection of any kind including the creation of accounts for children under the age of 13 without written, has to be actually physically written or a 40 hoops email, permission from the parent.
Instragram would hella care, the fine for breaking that law is extremely steep because it's aimed at corporations.
An example of some of the extremes a company will go to for protecting themselves from this law, if twitter ever finds out that at any point you were below 13 while having your twitter account, even if you are 18 now, they'll delete your entire account and scrub all data about it from existence to protect their website
Which part? The twitter scrubbing or the underlining law?
The twitter part is mostly anecdotal from people who have had their accounts deleted for just that reason.
The underlining laws are from COPPA.
(Child online privacy protection act.)
If you wanna see stuff about the coppa fines look at some recent stuff about YouTube and coppa. The fines youtubers can face for breaking it are fairly representative of fines for twitter or instagram should they fail to erase all data on someone found to be under 13 at the time of collection.
Mostly the Twitter part. I was only asking because as far as I knew Twitter keeps records of all the accounts that used their servers (as well as their activity) for sometimes years after the fact. I assumed it was at least partly for legal reasons, and scrubbing the accounts created by minors entirely while keeping records of other accounts seems like a good way to get themselves in trouble should a parent ever file a lawsuit or something.
the reason they keep data is to 1. sell it to people and 2. use it for targetted ads. it has nothing to do with legal anything.
thats a very odd way of looking at it. them keeping the data and not scrubbing it would be a violation of coppa. the data is illegal to have.
thats the part of the law in question below.
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Collects or collection means the gathering of any personal information from a child by any means, including but not limited to:
(1) Requesting, prompting, or encouraging a child to submit personal information online;
(2) Enabling a child to make personal information publicly available in identifiable form. An operator shall not be considered to have collected personal information under this paragraph if it takes reasonable measures to delete all or virtually all personal information from a child's postings before they are made public and also to delete such information from its records; or
(3) Passive tracking of a child online.
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General requirements. It shall be unlawful for any operator of a Web site or online service directed to children, or any operator that has actual knowledge that it is collecting or maintaining personal information from a child, to collect personal information from a child in a manner that violates the regulations prescribed under this part. Generally, under this part, an operator must:
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this part is also important as it sets the guideline that this stuff doesnt come into effect until it is known that the person fits the legal definition of a child which is defined earlier in the law by this
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Child means an individual under the age of 13.
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An example of some of the extremes a company will go to for protecting themselves from this law, if twitter ever finds out that at any point you were below 13 while having your twitter account, even if you are 18 now, they'll delete your entire account and scrub all data about it from existence to protect their website
The twitter part is mostly anecdotal from people who have had their accounts deleted for just that reason.
The underlining laws are from COPPA.
(Child online privacy protection act.)
If you wanna see stuff about the coppa fines look at some recent stuff about YouTube and coppa. The fines youtubers can face for breaking it are fairly representative of fines for twitter or instagram should they fail to erase all data on someone found to be under 13 at the time of collection.
thats a very odd way of looking at it. them keeping the data and not scrubbing it would be a violation of coppa. the data is illegal to have.
thats the part of the law in question below.
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Collects or collection means the gathering of any personal information from a child by any means, including but not limited to:
(1) Requesting, prompting, or encouraging a child to submit personal information online;
(2) Enabling a child to make personal information publicly available in identifiable form. An operator shall not be considered to have collected personal information under this paragraph if it takes reasonable measures to delete all or virtually all personal information from a child's postings before they are made public and also to delete such information from its records; or
(3) Passive tracking of a child online.
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General requirements. It shall be unlawful for any operator of a Web site or online service directed to children, or any operator that has actual knowledge that it is collecting or maintaining personal information from a child, to collect personal information from a child in a manner that violates the regulations prescribed under this part. Generally, under this part, an operator must:
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this part is also important as it sets the guideline that this stuff doesnt come into effect until it is known that the person fits the legal definition of a child which is defined earlier in the law by this
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Child means an individual under the age of 13.
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