Re: New Federal Law (COPPA)

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>]

At 09:48 24/04/00 -0400, Robert Cannon wrote:

Or take the persons name and zip and feed it into:
http://anybirthday.com/search.htm
to get the person's date of birth.

Scary, huh?!

-Hank

> 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.
>
> -B
> www.cybertelecom.org
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet () graffiti com>
> To: John Hall <j.hall () f5 com>
> Sent: April 22, 2000 3:26:39 AM GMT
> Subject: Re: New Federal Law (COPPA)
>
> i was actually implying that if you asked and found out they were 12,
> you've just broken the law.  the only problem (as i see it) is there's
> no way for you to collect the age information *without* possibly
> breaking the law.
>
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