Good news, just meeting with Urmika now and approach #3b is a go! Only detail 
is that we only allow birthyear choice once, so users will have to choose 
carefully.

Ryan Feeley
UX, Cloud Services
Mozilla UX
IRC: rfeeley

On Aug 20, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Chris Karlof <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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