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The reason this happened is a rather obnoxious law called Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)

• sp332 15y ago
  On 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 ago
    No. 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 ago
    Google'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.