Amazon Accused of Privacy Violation

tsu doh nimh writes "A clutch of privacy groups are accusing Amazon of violating federal kids's privacy rules, according to this Washingtonpost.com story."

That's just wrong

[L. VeGas]

accusing Amazon of violating federal kids

Oh, I thought it said feral kids.

Wait you shouldn't do that either.

From the toysrus.com site

[ptaff]

Stated from the toysRus.com site, conditions of use:

If you are under 18, you may use Amazon.com only with involvement of a parent

So, what does "use" mean in that context?

Amazon say they allow specific under-age-13 anonymous reviews. So I guess it's always the parent's fault, or the kids' fault, never Amazon's.

After all, parents should always be around, I wonder if letting a child use a computer without supervision is a crime. Seems to be.

So long, script kiddies!

Darn law-traps.

EPIC has a good track record

[bill_mcgonigle]

But they're a bit light on the details [epic.org] with this one.

Do they have specific problem cases they're citing? As I understand Amazon, it's a place where you go to buy stuff with a credit card. Unless there are some nutty parents out there, we don't need to worry about this happening with young children.

Then epic goes on to say how Amazon is using kiddie fonts to lure in children. I must be incredibly naive, I thought it was there to soften up the feel of the website, make it feel a touch more like a toy stor

Re:EPIC has a good track record

[Silent_E]

There's been a bunch of cases in which companies have collected and maintained databases of children's personal information (lego, mrs. field's, and hershey's most recently). Aside from the "marketing to children concerns" (children are supposedly more impressionable and less able to distinguish between reality and fantasy), these sites are potentially dangerous because they lable kids as such and depending on what personal info is on the site, it makes it possible to find kids in the real world using thei

Re:EPIC has a good track record

[bill_mcgonigle]

I agree with everything you said, but the only reason to make an account at Amazon is to buy stuff or to post reviews, right?

So, they tell kids not to make accounts, kids make accounts, and EPIC gets all over them because they could theorteically share that data with Hershey's?

I'm just not following...

Obfuscated grammar

[henben]

federal kids's privacy rules

Editors, editors. How is it possible that you can write Perl but you can't get this right?

Just apply the regexp \s///'/\ ... no, hold on ... oh, never mind.