Children under 13 are not allowed to use Coursera, and if the company discovers a child's data was collected without parental consent, it will delete that information.
If a child under 13 creates a Coursera account without parental consent, their personal data — including learning activity and contact information — may be collected before deletion procedures are triggered, creating a privacy risk for minors.
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Compare across platforms →This clause is required by COPPA but relies on self-reporting; there is no robust age verification mechanism described, which could expose young users' data if they misrepresent their age.
1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision directly implicates COPPA (15 U.S.C. § 6501-6506) and the FTC's COPPA Rule (16 C.F.R. Part 312), which require verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13. The FTC is the primary enforcement authority. In the EU, GDPR Art. 8 sets the age of digital consent at 16 (with member states permitted to lower it to 13), and the UK Children's Code (Age Appropriate Design Code) imposes additional design and data minimization requirements for services likely accessed by minors. 2)
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