[OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

[Tom Hughes]

On 05/11/2019 09:40, Maarten Deen wrote:

> COPPA does not seem to apply since OSM is not directed to children, let 
> alone in commercial ventures. The only possible connection would be when 
> children register since you would store information about them. That 
> might be a sensible reason to block children from registering (I can 
> also see that they probably would not have a significant positive 
> contribution to the data), but again, at the moment any use of OSM by 
> children is blocked.

GDPR has similar requirements around getting parental consent
for people under a certain age before processing personal data
on the consent basis.

Specifically although the default is 16 some countries including
the UK have set that at 13 instead.

Tom

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