Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-180.72.171.118-20160915043006/@comment-24258073-20161015062811

Brandon Rhea wrote: Here are a few points of clarity since there are a number of different points flying around here:


 * COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) has been around for 16 years. It was passed and signed into law in 1998 and became effective in 2000. There were revisions made in 2013, but the law was in place for 13 years before those revisions.
 * Children under the age of 13 can browse the site. COPPA is primarily about the collection of private user data, and we do not collect private user data from logged out users.
 * Children under the age of 13 cannot register an account. If they do and we find out about it, we are legally required to close their account to comply with the law.

I hope that clears things up.

I've always been supportive of the COPPA enforcement ever since I first found out about it. It just doesn't seem right to me that users under 13 should register.