On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:48 PM Silvia Sánchez <bhkohane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm finishing the article about ffsend and I realised that when I created > an account in Firefox Send it asked for my age. I don't know if this is a > random question or even if it has any purpose, but I wanted to push it > forward here because some people might be put off by this somewhat > "private" question. > I would assume it's to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)[1]. COPPA is a U.S. law that, in effect, requires users of online sites to be at least 13 years old (this is a gross simplification). Mozilla, as a U.S.-based org, needs to be able to say "yes, we are 'verifying' that our users are at least 13 years of age". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis Pronouns: he/him _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
