Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3026053-20130621001540/@comment-5716479-20130621161625

TK-999 wrote: As for the range of COPPA, Wikia is incorporated in the U.S., and hosted there, so U.S. law applies to its users. Indeed, however, that doesn't mean that this policy was mandated by that law. Otherwise, wikipidea and basically half of the internet major companies would have to make drastic changes. So this is not about the law, but wikia specific policy.

Leviathan 89 wrote: I think the issue is that the IP is registered in the first place. Even if it's not public, Wikia is still "collecting" the IPs of its editor, and that counts as collecting personal data. But maybe I got it wrong... IPs are logged everywhere, from your ISP, to every sever you pass, and is essential to most network and management function if indeed collection of IP was made illegal you'd hear about it. So lets not play lawyers.

Besides it was correctly pointed out by 'Lady Lostris' if "this policy was indeed mandated by law, then wikia should have applied to every wikia, not only on the larger wikias they think catering to younger audience i.e. because if it is illegal, it takes one kid editing on some forsaken wikia for them to be breaking the law.