The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) went into effect Friday, and already America Online has deleted the online profiles of anyone who is self-identified as being under the age of 13. Other popular youth sites such as Alloy have banned preteens from chat rooms, while the so-called "i-generation" site Snowball.com has cut off free e-mail and home page services.
Sites Drop Kids to Comply With COPPA
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Driving at 16, drinking at 21, web surfing at 13? Compliance
with a new U.S. law intended to protect kids' privacy is rippling
across the Web, limiting access to services that users of all
ages had probably taken for granted.