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12-year-old FarmVille user runs up £900 debt (guardian.co.uk)
2 points by bensummers on April 10, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Since Zynga and Facebook are located in the US, I would use a COPPA argument against Zynga/Facebook. They would have to get parental consent before collecting personal information (including billing information) from a child under 13. I think this argument would hold even though the child was in the UK. It's worth a try...

http://www.coppa.org/comply.htm


Kids will be kids!




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