On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:48 PM Silvia Sánchez <bhkohane(a)gmail.com> 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
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