Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*
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- Subject: Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:54:32 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87o7j0th5z.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
- In-reply-to: <azafuqk5kiln2somqesu22c2nkksfl5lypqaw5fcr5r735w6ge@owevosl5irx4> (Dominik George's message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:24:17 +0200")
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Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:48:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> This implies that Salsa is happy to create accounts for people under
>> the age of 13, since the implicit statement here is that Debian's own
>> Git hosting infrastructure is less excluding than GitHub.
>> That's a somewhat surprising statement to me, given the complicated
>> legal issues involved in taking personal data from someone that young,
>> so I want to double-check: is that in fact the case?
> That is, in fact, the case.
> And no, it's not not legally complicated to collect personal data from
> children. If we, for now, only look at COPPA and GDPR, the laws relevant
> for the US and EU, respectively, the situation is:
[...]
Thank you! This is good to know and I'm very happy that this is the case.
I'm glad people have done the research that I hadn't done and worked out
what was required!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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