As FxA expands to other services, it is probably good time to revisit this. 
Here’s the current plan:

1) Ryan is going to talk with Mika on the legality of approach #3.
2) After 1), we’ll explore implementation strategies on all our platforms.

-chris

On Aug 20, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Peter deHaan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Clearly #1 is the best solution.
> 
> Why? input type=date
> 
> On my Flame and iPhone, it displays a handy spinner wheel which makes 
> year/month/day input silly fast 
> (http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_input_type_date -- 
> sadly w3schools was the only half decent docs i found with an example). I 
> don't have my Nexus 4 handy to see how Android Chrome and Android Firefox 
> currently treat that input type though.
> On the downside, desktop browser support is probably poor and i'm not sure 
> how we could easily switch to some jQuery calendar solution or fall back to 
> something else. http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime
> 
> -peter
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Thiessen" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 7:58:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Improving age verification
> 
> I think Greg puts it succinctly; I am quite firmly in this camp.
> 
> Thanks,
> --KT.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Norcie" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 2:15:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Improving age verification
> 
> I don't know if anyone on this list had the dubious pleasure of being a 
> tween under COPPA, but it was quite annoying. If I wanted to say, sign 
> up for say, a Debian discussion forum, I had to lie about my age. I 
> would be extremely unhappy if once I was finally 13, a service excluded 
> me because it was "too much effort" to cover my edge case. I might even 
> be annoyed enough to seek out another product. Isn't one of this year's 
> goals to grow the Firefox userbase?
> 
> Second, while 13 year olds might not be particularly passionate about 
> Sync, what about other projects like Loop. I'll bet 13 year olds would 
> be pretty annoyed if they couldn't sign up for the latest messaging app.
> 
> I understand there's limited developer resources, but frankly, this 
> seems like pretty minor fix. If the user is in the magic year, ask for a 
> full birthdate. And we wouldn't even need to retain the data right? Just 
> that the verification passed? So it's not like there is a privacy issue. 
>  I think we should think about the signal we are sending to the 
> community if we leave this bug open. Do we want to tell an already 
> disenfranchised group we don't care about them?
> --
> Greg Norcie
> 
> On 8/19/14, 1:20 PM, Edwin Wong wrote:
>> Sorry - I was quick to the punch there...  That was in reference to solution 
>> #3 or #3a.
>> 
>> I think if we're going 'improve' age verification, we need to support the 
>> exact dates for 13 year old.  I'd choose the least amount of work possible 
>> to support exact age verification but with no impact on users over 13.
>> 
>> -edwin
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Edwin Wong" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Nick Alexander" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 1:16:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: Improving age verification
>> 
>> At first I thought the same... but the MM/DD/YYYY picker ONLY displays if 
>> you pick the year that says you're 12 or 13.  If you are over 13, you will 
>> never see this date picker/form fields.
>> 
>> -edwin
>> 
>> ----- 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
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