Dominik George <naturesha...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:48:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> This implies that Salsa is happy to create accounts for people under >> the age of 13, since the implicit statement here is that Debian's own >> Git hosting infrastructure is less excluding than GitHub. >> That's a somewhat surprising statement to me, given the complicated >> legal issues involved in taking personal data from someone that young, >> so I want to double-check: is that in fact the case? > That is, in fact, the case. > And no, it's not not legally complicated to collect personal data from > children. If we, for now, only look at COPPA and GDPR, the laws relevant > for the US and EU, respectively, the situation is: [...] Thank you! This is good to know and I'm very happy that this is the case. I'm glad people have done the research that I hadn't done and worked out what was required! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
