Re: New Federal Law (COPPA)

["Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals () hotmail com>]

This is great, but I wonder how long it will be before ISPs and web hosting 
providers are considered liable if a kid lies about his/hee age, reasoning 
that the liar is underage and isn't considered responsible for him/herself.

It's still up to parents to make sure that their kids are surfing the 
Internet responsibly, but I don't know that the law assumes this in order to 
protect ISPs.

-rb

> From: Robert Cannon <rmcannon () mail com>
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: New Federal Law (COPPA)
> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:48:06 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> One website that collects personal data had a field for Date of Birth.  If 
> you entered a DOB that meant that you were underaged, the webpage refused 
> to go further.  Thus, the webpage could collect the data where individual 
> was of legal age but would just automatically refuse if under age.  This 
> doesnt seem too hard.

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