Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram security flaw

Re:Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram sec... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:06PM (#11624640)

Do Facebook face some sort of liability under COPPA for allowing [condoning?] this under 13 yo - I'm presuming without verifiable parental consent prior to use - to use their services?

Perhaps the time for Facebook to fight COPPA (for better or worse) is coming soon?

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Re:Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram sec... by envy2 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:29PM (#11624767)

In this case, seeing as COPPA is a US law and the kid in question is from Finland (and thus likely under Facebook's EU subsidiary), I'm guessing not.

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Re:Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram sec... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:03AM (#11627292)

Anticipating this objection I looked at some COPPA info briefly (I'm in the UK, in not that familiar with USCs) and it suggested that the jurisdiction was based on location of the controlling company or the servers (either being sufficient) and not location of the children accessing the service. That makes sense as otherwise company's could just use offshore servers and bypass the regulation.

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