Federal agencies seem to be having problems satisfying a children's privacy law.
The U.S. Justice Department's kids' website collects information about minors without asking for parents' permission. Invention Everybody's got issues in Politics That appears to violate the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act . The law does not normally apply to federal agencies, but the Clinton administration pledged to abide by its guidelines this summer. The information we request, such as your age, can help us make our site more useful to you. It asks children to get their parents' permission, but doesn't require it.