@Whoknew2014 - you obviously have no clue, so let me spell it out for you:
1) You're wrong. I can and have bypassed age restrictions on web surfing, apps and games across multiple platforms for my children WHEN I DECIDE AS A PARENT THAT THE CONTENT IS APPROPRIATE FOR THEM. By denying me that option, EA is, in fact, telling me what games my kids can and can't play.
EDIT: The FTC allows companies to get "verifiable consent" from parents to waive COPPA regulations regarding their kids' personal information:
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/BUS84-coppa-6-steps.pdf
It has also approved several methods of gaining that consent, so EA really has no excuse other than simply being too cheap to implement:
Furthermore, COPPA restrictions apply to the exchange or display of identifying information -- as long as that information is not exchanged or displayed, they are in compliance with the act. That means obfuscating username, blocking access to chat, and hiding badges/accomplishments from other users and steps to make the servers COPA compliant....there is NO hard-set restriction in place.
2) I don't want to change any laws. I don't even want him to have access to online services. I just want to disable a nag
3) Try having kids before telling people how to be a parent, otherwise you end up sounding like a censored //EA_Valgard
@Whoknew2014 wrote:
Bet that so called parent comes back with some long winded response....
Feel better now, pooky?
Let it all out
