Will Google abolish the age limit for using the service and set up a child account?

ByAmy MacKinnon

Currently, when holding a Google account, "Account age requirementIn Japan and many other countries, it is necessary to be 13 years old or more, but the movement to make it possible to open an account even with a baby just born with the elimination of this requirement It is reported that there is.

Google Seeks New Customers: Kids - The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/Google-Seeks-New-Customers-Kids

Google coming for your children, says The Information | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/18/6030815/google-coming-for-your-children-says-the-information

The InformationAccording to the report, Google is considered to have a movement to allow children to have accounts under the permission of their parents, for example by revising the terms of the account service. In addition, it is said that parents are developing tools to manage the use situation of children to use the service. This includes a mechanism that can monitor the usage of children and safety for childrenYouTube for childrenAnd so on.

America's enforcement in July 2013Revised Children Online Privacy Protection ActWhere defined, it is necessary for permission of parents to ask for sign up (use registration) for children under 13 years old, in one example Yahoo! in the United States The method of getting approval by paying 50 cents (about 50 yen) with parent's credit card is used.

At the moment, Google does not take responsibility even if the user loses his / her age, and since it seems that there are many children who actually use the birth date of birth to put in it, how is it effective There is also a voice to point out the question, but when the use of the service is not contrary to the regulation due to the policy change of Google, the parent who regulated the use has turned around (on the premise that approval is given) It seems that it can be thought that there is an effect of allowing children to use the service.

ByDaveLawler

In the past, Google had a concept movie in which fathers set up accounts in lieu of girls who had justborn, recorded their daily girl's growth in a clear way, and watch the record of memories together in the futureDear SophieI made it as CM.

Google Chrome: Dear Sophie


In this CM, my father used to create my daughter's account on behalf of the father, but when this revision is done, it may be the era when Google's account is given from the moment when I was really born.