I don't have a cell phone Thank God. I live in the country and it's hard to get a signal on one; so why bother. I have a landline and it suits me just fine. When the government does away with that, I guess I'll just go back to homing pigeon. Haha.
I get this all the time. real pain in the ass, but I just cancel it. does the same when I log into email too, and offers no "cancel" button, so you just click "back" on the browser and you get to your inbox fine.
There is no law google needs it for, liars.
They did the same thing with my telephone number, they even pretended they had my number - a wrong number and said "this is the number we have for you" well great, keep that one then. (they do have my real number because sometimes I get texts about me trying to login to email from other computers, super weird, but I never explicitly gave it to them, they can evidently scrape it from my android phone without my permission!)
It is getting absurd how they want to know everything. I do have a fake birthday also, which is the first of january on my real birth year, that I use whenever I need to enter one for various purposes (salt that data).
(I wish I had done what I thought of 20 years ago and generated a completely fake persona from a dead birth certificate, it is so much more difficult these days)
Make up a birthday that makes you at least 18. That's what the kids do to access some social media that "requires" them to be 16 or older. They forget all about it until they receive birthday greetings on random days.
I think this is a CYA move for an upcoming lawsuit going in front of the FTC. Gotta figure out who the kids are.
Back in '19, they got caught violating COPPA and ended up settling with the FTC for $170M and the promise to build out an enforcement mechanism to identify and restrict content inappropriate for 13yo and younger kids. They failed to do so and got sued, but the case got dismissed last week in CA district court (wrong venue) and sent to the FTC for review.
You should be fine plugging in any rando date as long as the year makes you older than 13 (or 18 if you use any monetized services or link your G account to a payment service).
I keep getting that notice too - just keep clearing out that message.
Once a week I ignore this message!
Yeah, I just keep deleting it and the phone is fine. Pushy little buggers,aren't they?
I don't have a cell phone Thank God. I live in the country and it's hard to get a signal on one; so why bother. I have a landline and it suits me just fine. When the government does away with that, I guess I'll just go back to homing pigeon. Haha.
I get this all the time. real pain in the ass, but I just cancel it. does the same when I log into email too, and offers no "cancel" button, so you just click "back" on the browser and you get to your inbox fine.
There is no law google needs it for, liars.
They did the same thing with my telephone number, they even pretended they had my number - a wrong number and said "this is the number we have for you" well great, keep that one then. (they do have my real number because sometimes I get texts about me trying to login to email from other computers, super weird, but I never explicitly gave it to them, they can evidently scrape it from my android phone without my permission!)
It is getting absurd how they want to know everything. I do have a fake birthday also, which is the first of january on my real birth year, that I use whenever I need to enter one for various purposes (salt that data).
(I wish I had done what I thought of 20 years ago and generated a completely fake persona from a dead birth certificate, it is so much more difficult these days)
Make up a birthday that makes you at least 18. That's what the kids do to access some social media that "requires" them to be 16 or older. They forget all about it until they receive birthday greetings on random days.
"to help Google comply with the law" Is there a birthday law I'm not aware of?
I know right, the wording is extremely fishy
I have been getting that nag on my Gmail accounts for a good while.
I just dismiss it. Silly C_A.
Yeah, but I just keep deleting it and the phone works just fine. Pushy little buggers aren't they?
Use November 22, 1963 as your Google "birthday".
That's the date Kennedy was shot.
I think this is a CYA move for an upcoming lawsuit going in front of the FTC. Gotta figure out who the kids are.
Back in '19, they got caught violating COPPA and ended up settling with the FTC for $170M and the promise to build out an enforcement mechanism to identify and restrict content inappropriate for 13yo and younger kids. They failed to do so and got sued, but the case got dismissed last week in CA district court (wrong venue) and sent to the FTC for review.
You should be fine plugging in any rando date as long as the year makes you older than 13 (or 18 if you use any monetized services or link your G account to a payment service).
1, 1, 1900. There ya go Google.
Hey, that was my birthday as well!
I can see that!
I don't own a smartphone but if I did I'd probably give a false d.o.b. like I did with Fakebook on my laptop.