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Re:Google Made My Daughter Cry Today by tjgq on Saturday December 07, 2013 @07:15PM (#6868352)
It's not really a second platform, is it? It's more like adding a single configuration bit to an account that determines whether it is eligible for marketing campaigns (or whatever else it is they can't do with children).

It's even likely that they already have such a thing in place for debugging purposes.

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Re:Google Made My Daughter Cry Today by vacri on Saturday December 07, 2013 @07:26PM (#6868386)
I'm intrigued by this system you suggest that manages to get an entire engine for obtaining 'verifiable parental consent' squished into a single configuration bit, along with an engine to directly notify parents, to allow parents to view all the collected data, and provide deletion from backups. That's one busy bit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pro...

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