U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Questions tagged [coppa]
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Do schools have permission to use pictures containing my face taken inside school forever if I agreed to it?
On day one of my first year in high school me and basically every other students were given a few documents to sign. One of them included a clause that allowed the school to publish pictures of us doing activities on the school website. Back then I…
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How to block children under 13 to access my website and still comply with COPPA?
(This is a follow-up question from How to make sure my website complies with things like COPPA?)
COPPA stands for Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule.
In their FAQ they say "yes, you can block children under 13 from visiting your website if…
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Do I count as a non profit and not need to comply with COPPA?
I have a website for a fan game. We do not profit from it in any way. We don't even have ads nor donations. Do we count as a non-profit and are therefore exempt from complying with COPPA under Section 1302(2)(B)?
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How much evidence do I need in their ban appeal that they are actually 13+ to unban someone who was banned for being under 13 (to comply with COPPA)?
Since my site collects personal information, people under 13 years of age are not allowed because of the COPPA law (and the site is not directed towards children).
The most common ban appeals that these people make are:
The person claims they were…
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To what degree do I have to comply to COPPA in this scenario?
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is designed to restrict sites collecting information about children under the age of 13 years of age. If I am operating a general purpose web service that has, in its End User License Agreement…
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Mandatory Disclosing of Minor's User Data to Minor's Guardian
I was thinking of ideas for software projects to work on, and the one I thought to try brought an interesting legal question to mind. The idea was to create a collection of tools, such as a browser, file storage, email, and other similar services…
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Is a UDP/IP network exempt from COPPA?
COPPA 312.2 defines "Internet" as
collectively the myriad of computer and telecommunications facilities, including equipment and operating software, which comprise the interconnected world-wide network of networks that employ the Transmission…
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Is asking a website user their age the same as asking their birthdate?
COPPA says you must ask a user's age in a neutral way. Most websites make you enter your birthdate to check whether you're old enough to be using it. But what if you just simply ask the user's age? That seems to be just as neutral as asking their…
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Can action be taken against a Discord server for someone admitting in chat they're under 13 then changing their age to over 13 thereafter?
Suppose you have a Discord server with a member who voluntarily tells people in chat that they are 12 years old. For purposes of this example, the user says
I am 12 years old.
Then after making that claim, they tell the moderators they are instead…
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Doesn't COPPA incentivize mislabeling Youtube videos?
My understanding of the current situation with Youtube and COPPA is that Google was collecting private data (comments, viewing history, email addresses) about kids, which is a clear violation of COPPA. It has nothing to do with the content of the…
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Under COPPA, if a person says their age on a site and apparently were younger than 13 when they joined, does the site have to do anything?
If a user on a website with a 13+ age rule as required by The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, such as Stack Exchange, signs up in year 1, then says in year 3 that they are less than 15 (and thus were less than 13 when they signed up), does…
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Help with interpretation: must I comply or not with COPPA?
(This is a follow-up question from How to make sure my website complies with things like COPPA?)
Quoting FTC's COPPA FAQ:
The Internet is a global medium. Do websites and online services developed and run abroad have to comply with the…
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Does COPPA restrict collecting city location from kids under 13?
The FTC states that "A home or other physical address including street name and name of a city" is considered personal information under COPPA.
Does that mean that city name alone is restricted as is street name + city? (i.e. is that statement a…
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Is YouTube legally required to not allow "Made For Kids" videos to be added to playlists?
In the last few years YouTube introduced a Made For Kids classification for videos, which requires uploaders to state whether a given video is made for children, in which case certain features are disabled for those videos. YouTube cites the…
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Does COPPA require that users who provide PII while under 13, then turn 13 have their PII purged?
If there is a user of an online website who provides PII while under the age of 13, then later turns 13, would COPPA require that that person have their PII purged from that online website?
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