nsane.forums Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) federal regulation states that a person must be aged 13 or older in order to use websites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, however there are fears that millions of users are below this legal age with, technology firm, ComScore estimating that up to 3.6m Facebook users are under the age of 12. "Not only are kids lying about their age, but more often than not, parents teach them to lie about their age," said Microsoft researcher, Danah Boyd. While lying about age is nothing new, the current concerns are that children are signing up to these sites, mostly to copy their peers and family. It is claimed that parents are even helping their children, while considering the law an obstacle which blocks their children from socialising and participating in social media. Media websites find it hard to verify a person age while keeping their sites "we are not burying our head in the sand," said the chief security officer at Facebook. One such example is that of 44 year old Cristina Flores, she allowed her 11 year old son to sign up on Facebook without realising that age restrictions existed. "It’s not like there’s a legal age limit for being on the Internet," she said. His son, Jake, told the site he was 15 years old. It appears this is not uncommon with half of his class doing the same thing. The former chief of security at MySpace, Hemanshu Nigam, told the NY Times the story of an 11 year old boy who accepted a friend request from a girl in his class, the only issue was that 'her' profile was fake. The boys pictures ended up on a sex themed website with some very distasteful comments. "It can be a living nightmare for an 11-year-old who just wanted to hang out with his friends" he said. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuthut Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 and almost 70% of face book breaks the first 5 rules....What good are the rules if you aren't going to enforce any of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niharjhatn Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 and almost 70% of face book breaks the first 5 rules....What good are the rules if you aren't going to enforce any of them?Meh... everyone bses on the internet. I think its really up to parents to enforce, until their kids develop smarter habits, understand consequences, and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 and almost 70% of face book breaks the first 5 rules....What good are the rules if you aren't going to enforce any of them?F the rules. they are so totally stupid. the COPPA is so fuing stupid and ajoke also. its the parents job not the government.in order for you to have an email account that actually put real information that you are under 13 you have to have a 2nd account link to it and a credit card check. that is why parents have said F U COPPA. the whole purpose of COPPA is to avoid collecting informtionn on under age kids. (USA only) first hand the federal law is if you meet someone under 18 that you two first started from online then its illegal. if you meet someone in a state from not online then state ages take effect. this of course confuses dumb adults that think its 18 in every state.you are also told to never put any personal real information online. but to do that then you are breaking the TOS and the federal law. no one listerns to TOS and they should be voided just like software TOS should be voided. really would you give your personel information knowing that facebook is a target for ID thieve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmr1684 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 here goes another 3.6 million stories about children and pathetic facebook saga (never ever going to die, always stay alive :sneaky: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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