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Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:15:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, William R. Ward wrote:
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In lugnet.general, John P. Henderson wrote:
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I’m not sure where to post this in this thread, so I’m just going to throw
it out there. If anyone here decides they want to take action (as I said,
I’m not sure what) to build or rebuild the sort of service we had with BS, I
want to make one suggestion: Use people’s real names.
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Brickshelf used to use real names but there have been some laws passed in the
past few years that make that problematic. For one thing, there are laws
against collecting certain information online from people under the age of
13. The idea is to make it harder for pedophiles to track down their prey.
Kevin took all the real names down one day a few years ago (without much
fanfare, they just disappeared). You used to be able to browse users by
their real names, but then after that you could only use the login name.
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You’re referring to the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
(There are similar things in many other countries, but as I understand COPPA is
one of the most stringent, so it’s what many people deal with as a default)
Basically COPPA says that you can’t ask for and/or accept personally
identifiable information from anyone 13 or younger without parental consent. You
can have them sign up all day long, but you can’t ask them for things like name,
address, phone, email, hometown, etc., but you have to have parental consent.
(Which is fairly difficult according to COPPA’s rules)
That doesn’t preclude a site from taking “reasonable efforts” to ensure that a
new user is older than 13 then asking them for all kinds of personal data. Those
reasonable efforts just have to meet certain criteria (like not actively
encouraging a kid to lie ... “You have to be older than 13 to get the really
good stuff! Are you older than 13?”)
Jake
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Jake McKee
Private Citizen
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| (...) Brickshelf used to use real names but there have been some laws passed in the past few years that make that problematic. For one thing, there are laws against collecting certain information online from people under the age of 13. The idea is (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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