I was the author/maintainer of the Gmail activity. Easy enough to breath new life into it. When I was still at OLPC back in 2007, I had negotiated a deal such that our user base could not only use gmail, but also use it for backup.
Is there a link to the TOS argeement you mention? Maybe worth discussing with them. -walter On 7/20/11, Yamandu Ploskonka <[email protected]> wrote: > I am unsure if at any moment we have been encouraging kids to have a > google account. I do recall there was a very useful Gmail Activity, > which eventually was not part of Sugar anymore. I apologize if this has > been dicussed earlier. > > Anyway, I just learned that Google appears to take as a serious breach > of their TOS if an under-13 uses their services, to the point of > deleting their data, etc. > > So far it is probably mostly a don't ask don't tell kind of thing, but > there are some pathetic horror stories around, of kids that had their > stuff locked. I wonder if something similar happens with blogger and such? > > Should we warn our users? When signing up for Google I do not recall > having it ask my age, though I guess it was part of the TOS you're > supposed to read and you agree to anyway... Maybe I did, but anyway, > there you go. > > Yama > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
