Children’s privacy & COPPA
What COPPA means for Friday and what remains required before commercial launch.
What COPPA covers
The U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and its rule regulate how covered services collect, use and disclose personal information from children under 13. Requirements depend on the service and its actual processing.
Our current family controls
Friday uses parent-owned accounts, child nicknames and age, self-attested permission, separate voice controls, family export and active-record deletion. These are product controls, not a legal compliance certification.
A code is not enough
An emailed code verifies access to the parent email address. It does not by itself establish verifiable parental consent for every type of child-data processing. An appropriate consent method must be assessed with qualified legal advice.
Before public child deployment
Operator identity and privacy contact, direct notices, an appropriate verified-consent process, provider terms for children, data minimization, security and retention practices require review and completion. Friday does not currently claim COPPA certification.
Learn from the regulator
Parents can consult the Federal Trade Commission’s official COPPA resources. Those resources describe the law; they do not certify Friday.