It's true. We are required by COPPA legislation to implement a "neutral age verification mechanism". Instead of using a date picker for a birthday (which is usually three pulldowns) we chose something a little unconventional that we hope causes more accurate input. We noticed that Tumblr’s legal team seems to be okay with a simple: How old you are? <text input> which I think might be even easier and end the grandpa comments. I could check with legal.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Tarek Ziade <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Nicholas Alexander < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Tarek, >> >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Tarek Ziade <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey >>> >>> Someone tweeted me: https://twitter.com/johnke/status/566570679123058688 >>> >> >> Wow, that's quite a thread! >> >> >>> >>> and looking at a recent change in b2g about that >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/3afef63b0389b066f2bc1cc05944ffe1633caec9 >>> >>> I am wondering: what's the rational behind "1990".. shouldn't it be 2002 >>> ? >>> shouldn't we dynamically pull the "19xx and earlier" choice ? >>> >> >> I think jgruen and rfeeley have the most UX context here, and presumably >> there's a legal person with legal context we could ask. I believe some of >> the language in the Act requires service providers to not make it "easy" to >> avoid the requirements of the act. I know one concern was that identifying >> exactly the magic year might be construed as violating COPPA. That, for >> example, is why essentially zero sites ask: "Are you 13 or older" -- it >> leads the user too clearly. There is some doubt as to whether asking per >> year up until 13, and then having an "I'm old enough" category is also >> violating. >> > > Interesting.. (and quite odd :)) - we should simply display a floppy disk > picture and ask them what it is. ;) > > > I am adding Fernando to this thread since I guess b2g seems now slightly > different in that aspect. > > > >> >> Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer! >> > >> >> >> Nick >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > >
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