What happens if a child visits a chat room or creates a blog and announces his or her age?
You may be considered to have actual knowledge with respect to that child if someone from your organization sees the post, or if someone alerts you to the post (for example, a concerned parent who learns that his child is participating on your site). However, if no one in your organization is aware of the post, then you may not have the requisite actual knowledge under the Rule. If you have monitored chat rooms where monitors delete information from posts before they are made public, then your monitors can simply strip the child’s posts of any personal information before they are publicly posted, thus permitting children to participate in the chat room without the need for obtaining parental consent. This practice is easily applied to “auditorium” style chat rooms in which children pose questions that a moderator screens before posting, and may work well for other websites with chat features.
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