For players under 13 in the US, Minecraft requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal data, in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
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The provision operationalizes Minecraft's legal obligation to implement age-gating mechanisms and consent verification procedures, establishing the procedural baseline for permissible data handling across different user age categories. This framework determines which data practices proceed with parental consent versus which practices are restricted for users under 13.
Interpretive note: The specific COPPA consent mechanism language could not be directly quoted due to document truncation; the provision is inferred from Minecraft's known regulatory obligations and the document's general privacy framework.
Parents of children under 13 who play Minecraft must provide verifiable consent for data collection, and children's accounts are subject to restrictions on behavioral advertising and certain data sharing practices that do not apply to adult accounts.
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(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: COPPA, enforced by the FTC, requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13 in the US.
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The provision operationalizes Minecraft's legal obligation to implement age-gating mechanisms and consent verification procedures, establishing the procedural baseline for permissible data handling across different user age categories. This framework determines which data practices proceed with parental consent versus which practices are restricted for users under 13.
Parents of children under 13 who play Minecraft must provide verifiable consent for data collection, and children's accounts are subject to restrictions on behavioral advertising and certain data sharing practices that do not apply to adult accounts.
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