I will emphatically refer Nick to bug 1031621 -- I disagree really, really strongly.
By December, we are denying 11/12 of 13-year-olds access to the system with no legal reason to do so, which makes FxA entirely useless for, just to pick an example, any middle-schools teaching kids about how to create on the web. If we decide not to fix this, I want the person who takes that decision to personally write a message to the filer of 1031621 and explain to him why his participation on the Web is not important to us. --KT. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Alexander" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:34:10 AM Subject: Re: Improving age verification On 2014-08-19, 10:25 AM, Ryan Feeley wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently our sign-up form makes users feel older (born 1990 or earlier?), > and excludes some kids born in the magic year: > https://accounts.firefox.com/signup > > Finally… here are three proposals to improve our age verification: > https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/view/9a25eda5-f03d-46c0-80bf-756cd17da7c3 > > Remember that The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) is > a United States federal law that requires that we use a “neutral" age > verification mechanism. > > I believe option #1 and #2 are neutral, but I’ll require legal input for #3. > > Which do you prefer: #1, #2, #3, #3a or leave it the same? Entering YMD (#1) on mobile is out of the question. Unbelievably terrible with keyboards, Swype, auto-complete, etc. I could be convinced that #2 without the day field (what do we care? round!) is worth it. But maybe we just go for a larger year range. #3 is a lot of effort for a really small win. In general, my political features are not unduly ruffled by denying folks in the cusp year access. Nick _______________________________________________ Dev-fxacct mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct _______________________________________________ Dev-fxacct mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct
