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Gmail Deleting Accounts of Children

George R [PersonRank 10]

Monday, December 19, 2011
12 years ago16,467 views

Warning: If you have a Gmail account and claim on Google+ that your age is under 13, Google may delete your account.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/hey-google-thanks-for-making-my-daughter-cry/2011/12/12/gIQAhYx9pO_blog.html
http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1333913

Apparently Google is doing this is to comply with COPPA. Is the US congress teaching children to lie and defraud web sites like Google? I am reminded of a quote from the movie "2010: The Year We Make Contact".

   "HAL was ordered to lie ... by people who find it very easy to lie."

slashdot discussion: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/2046221/why-google-is-disabling-kids-gmail-accounts

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