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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?




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.


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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