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as released by Scream, it does not ask for identifying information on its users
If I click on the "Brewskie" link on your post in this forum I see that your name is Brian Ewing. What could be more identifying than that (a DNA sample)?
Here is a quote from FTC on COPPA:
[:blue]...sites will also have to obtain "verifiable parental consent" before collecting, using or disclosing personal information from children...
I don't see anything in that statement to indicate that it only applies to only non-optional information (which you seem to be assuming).
I'm not a lawyer, I haven't spent any time studying COPPA, and I'm not interested in debating the constitutionality (or even usefulness) of the "law". It is what it is and we have to deal with it. My point in displaying the quotation that I did in my original post is that when COPPA is turned on in W3T and someone tries to register without clicking "I'm over 13" they can click the back button on their browser and try again. The article seemed to imply that this is not good enough.
Bill Dimm, MagPortal.com - [:red]free feeds for your site.
