UKNM: Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act

[Sam Michel]

Hiya Gang...


Anyone got any comments (our learned friends perhaps?) on the Childrens

Online Privacy Protection Act? I got an email from Excite saying something

about changing their email system to comply with it. The law is being

instituted by the Federal Trade Commission in the US.


I haven't read up on this, so please excuse any incorrect interpretations,

but this law means a site can't gather any information on a child under 13

without parental consent including setting a cookie on the child's machine.

I don't know if there's a way round this with a disclaimer, but it would

seem the consequences are far-reaching.


I may well have missed some nuance. Any comments? Anyone know how this

affects UK-based sites?


Toodle Pip


Sam

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