Do you know where your children’s email accounts are? Google does, or at least it would like to. According to a post by Julia Siripurapu, an associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, the tech giant is trying to design accounts for children under 13, where they would be able to get email and access child-friendly YouTube videos.
Siripurapu said children under 12 are prohibited from opening a Google account and the Internet search and software company currently uses an age-neutral verification mechanism to open new accounts. She said the company has acknowledged the initiative, which was originally reported in The Wall Street Journal. It’s “certainly very interesting and would clearly require the tech giant to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act,” she said.
