Ask HN: Is it legal to ask for personal information without reason?
While surfing the web of Youtube content creators I ended up on a website that prompts the user for their date of birth in order to continue. No reason, no information about what it will be used for - just preventing the user from continuing without typing in this personal information.
"What year were you born?" [Blank area to type in year] "Enter" Privacy Policy
It seems super spammy but is it legal? It's a little scary that people can be preyed on in this way.
Source: https://www.j-14.com/ Seems like a very misguided effort to comply with COPPA since the site content is likely geared toward teens/pre-teens. I clicked the "enter" button without selecting a year and the URL changed to
https://www.j-14.com/?age_gate%5Bbirth_year%5D=&age_gate%5Bc... I would assume the better way to notify users is the way other sites have an alert bar at the top or bottom with their cookie policy. Well I hope they enjoy my age of -1. To tell you the answer, I need to know the last 4 of your social Seriously? Just enter fake info.