Google mulls enabling special accounts for children under age 13

One of the big concerns for parents and kids alike is online privacy. For adults, it is up to personal responsibility and decision. For people under 18 years of age, and particularly under the age of 13, there is legislation that expressly prohibits collection of data from minors for purposes of advertisements.



Of course, in a parallel universe, teenagers never lie so this is not a problem, but in our reality, teenagers do lie when they set up services like Facebook or Twitter, or Gmail. For those instances, companies are not liable for violating COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection ...



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