Re: UKNM: Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act

[Lee.Rickler]

So? does this mean that when I visit Excite cookies are set BUT when I pop

into the garden and leave my 7yo boy surfing, if he visits Excite all

cookies are off?

Yeah! Right! Like!!!


Seems to me that they are making it up as they go along.


Lee



                    Sam Michel

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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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