[Wikipedia-l] Re: An idea

Sat Jun 4 22:26:54 UTC 2005

Sean Barrett wrote:
> Timwi stated for the record:
> 
>> I am wondering to what extent COPPA applies to Wikipedia, and
>> whether there is any legal risk for Wikimedia if American children
>> under 13 years of age use Wikipedia without their parents' consent?
> 
> It does not apply at all.  COPPA specifies what information a site is
> allowed to collect about children under 13.  We don't collect any 
> applicable information about our users.

How does the law define "collect"? We do store all information that 
these children put on their user pages themselves, in the same way 
LiveJournal stores only information that was entered by the user...