[IAEP] Gmail & other Google TOS

[Chris Leonard]

Agreed that COPPA seems to be where the magic number 13 is defined.

"(1) CHILD.—The term "child" means an individual under the age of 13."

cjl

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Martin Dengler
<martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:56:03PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Chris Leonard
>> <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Is there a link to the TOS argeement you mention? Maybe worth
>> >> discussing with them.
>> >
>> > http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS  ???
>> >
>> > cjl
>> >
>>
>> Most likely this section on Accepting the terms.
>>
>> 2.3 You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a)
>> you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google,
>
> It may be a COPPA[1,2] issue. The issue perhaps comes from
> http://www.sunpig.com/martin/archives/2011/07/05/alex-and-google-follow-up.html
>
>> cjl
>
> Martin
>
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act
> 2. http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm
>