User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-11141011-20130702011232/@comment-1216259-20130702013720

Neither of those is really true.

1. There are several flaws here. One is that children already do not have full rights, on account of not being full adults. This is why their parents can make decisions for them, & why there are restrictions to what they can say or do in public schools. But perhaps the main one is that the law doesn't restrict kids from speaking, or even signing up, it restricts websites from collecting information on them.

2. Yes & no. What we forget is that adults are more cunning & manipulative than children. Tactics people use to fool children into trusting them are pretending to be a friend or relative of the parent, or impersonating a police officer. But that's all beside the point, because this isn't about "talking to strangers," the point is that IP address--which is automatically recorded--can be used to track location. Approximately, anyway.