962611 - Firefox Accounts (Sign-Up) - COPPA : Forbidden creation for those newly 13 y-o

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1058806

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Android Sync, defect, P4)

Description

[Ioana Chiorean]

Build: 2014-01-22 Nightly Firefox 29
OS: Android 4.2.2
Device: Galaxy Nexus 

Precondition: consider yourself a kid born in 2001 in January (1st-21st)

Steps:
1. Settings ->  -> Add account -> Firefox Account
2. Configure a new account
3. Add your birth year as 2001 
4. Tap create new account

Expected result:
- As I already have 13y and some days I should be able to create my account

Actual result:
- I am still blocked in creation of my account.

Note:
- It will be hard to respect this only by year - maybe we should think to other implementation for COPPA security

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Right, the current is set at 14 http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/fxa/FxAccountConstants.java.in#30 but the act dictates children under 13. I think we are playing it safe in our limited UI but some clarification would be nice from legal and from Ryan.

Comment 2

[Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]]

This is true, in order to make Firefox 29 we are surfacing a year/decade picker only. This will exclude everyone under 13 as required by COPPA, but (until we implement a more nuanced approach) also some 13 years olds. High on our list to fix first after 29 releases.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Thanks. Sounds like 29-WONTFIX, and tracking +.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(Adjusting flag breakage, someone should mark this as + or 30 since I cant)

Comment 5

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Vivek addressed this in Bug 1058806.