Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-180.72.209.178-20160928110809/@comment-24757753-20160929100145

Jackninja5DipperGravityFalls wrote: Lksaflkasjflkdsajfas wrote: It's not against the law for someone under the age of 13 to sign up to Wikia. It's against the law for Wikia to store information about someone under that age. Their is a big difference. No it IS illegal for someone under the age of 13 to sign up to Wikia. COPPA is part of the United States federal law.

That is untrue. The COPPA law applies to organisations within US jurisdiction that may collect personal data from anybody younger than 13 online. It has no effect or jurisdiction whatsoever on the person the data is being collected from.

The reason it is within Wikia's Terms of Use is to prevent Wikia knowingly collecting data from anybody below that age. If they did collect such data without the appropriate permission/consent/protocols, Wikia themselves would be breaking US law, not the person younger than 13.