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A company can't ban a user from one service because they believe they're underage (to comply with COPA), then pretend to not know they should be banned from oth
by tomkarlo 15y ago
A company can't ban a user from one service because they believe they're underage (to comply with COPA), then pretend to not know they should be banned from other services of the company where COPA would also apply.
It's not "easier" to do that, it's just what you have to do since it's so difficult to make any social / messaging service COPA-compliant.
- true_religion 15y agoI inititially wrote just that but changed it.... I'm not sure that COPPA applies to GMail. Certainly, Yahoo mail doesn't stop me from entering a birth-date under the age of 13 when signing up for it.
- tomkarlo 15y agoYahoo will let you create the account, but then you'll have to go through a whole set of other steps to create a COPPA-compliant email account, including having a parent provide a credit card. That's different from how they would handle it if they had an existing account on Yahoo Mail and found out that the owner was less than 13 - I suspect they would have to turn it off as well, because they won't let you create a non-COPPA account once you've admitted you're under 13.