User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-1277243-20130703204123/@comment-4839682-20130703210512

The fact that it could be, and that some sites are obviously more susceptible to having children, means those children need to be protected. In theory, an IP could be used to trace you. Honestly, the odds of that are low, but the odds of someone putting poison in your kid's Halloween candy is low too, and we all know how many people get their kids' candy X-rayed...

Laws are written for the lowest denomination of people, and COPPA is for the 8 year old who has access and is naive enough to tell their address and phone number to a complete stranger online.