"On Silicon Valley, Piperchat neglects to follow the COPPA guidelines, and it creates some major problems. Twenty-one billion dollars worth of problems, to be specific." "When it’s discovered that the majority of the users are underage girls, Dinesh learns that every time a user logs on it’s a violation of the FTC’s COPPA law, which stands for Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule."
Umm (Score:5, Insightful)
"a data collection service that is thinly veiled as a social network"
I didn't realise there was any other kind?
Silicon Valley (Score:2)
Remember that episode?
"On Silicon Valley, Piperchat neglects to follow the COPPA guidelines, and it creates some major problems. Twenty-one billion dollars worth of problems, to be specific."
"When it’s discovered that the majority of the users are underage girls, Dinesh learns that every time a user logs on it’s a violation of the FTC’s COPPA law, which stands for Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule."
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