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Good life lesson for the kid about government, and why freedom & liberty are so important. And set her up with her own website already. Show her the power she
by ctdonath 15y ago
Good life lesson for the kid about government, and why freedom & liberty are so important.
And set her up with her own website already. Show her the power she has to not put up with such stupid limitations.
- sp332 15y ago1. This has nothing to do with the government. 2. Google are completely within their rights to do this. It's their servers after all.
- dillona 15y agoThe reason this happened is a rather obnoxious law called Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)
- sp332 15y agoOn the contrary, plenty of companies handle this just fine. COPPA does not require Google to disable or delete the account. Legally, they only need to get the guardian's permission. This is much more trouble than is required by COPPA.
- einhverfr 15y agoNo. Actually it requires "verifiable parental consent" meaning you have to be able to prove later you had such consent. This means having them fax a form that you retain, or get a digitally signed email, or the like. This is not trivial to comply with.
- okoni 15y agoGoogle's services and google data collection are two sides of the same coin. Make it possible to have google services without the data collection part would expose the actual data collection taking place and worse users could start asking to be disconnected from the data collection since it's now possible.
- ctdonath 15y ago1. Others have referenced the law involved. 2. That's why I said "Set her up with her own website already". Notice I didn't blame Google.
- sp332 15y agoThe second point you made was that freedoms are important. So I mentioned that Google's freedoms include the freedom to delete your data.