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Violating the COPPA

Yesterday, I registered my nieces as users for a website without their parents’ explicit permission. I even went on to the “Parents” section to vet their privacy policy, and invented (valid) email addresses for them.

I think the only reason this is safe is that they claim not to be able to type enough to remember login nicknames and passwords (particularly the compound words I chose for passwords.) They claim they need to be read to as well, yet they seem to navigate the site just fine.

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