Activities / How software is offered
Serves under-18s
serves_minors
Your app is used by, or knowingly allows, people under the age of eighteen, whether or not it was designed for them.
- scope deployment
- in the registry since 1.0
- 296 laws in 157 jurisdictions name it
What triggers it
The lint's definition. It is used by people under 18 or is likely to be: it is aimed at them, or it is open to everyone and does not keep them out. Data about minors collected elsewhere is the data activity, not this one.
This covers a general-audience social app that in practice has a large under-18 user base, and a game marketed to teenagers.
What does not
An app that requires and enforces an adult-only signup, and takes real steps to keep minors out, does not count in the same way.
Often confused with Publishes adult content and Operates a social platform.
The law it brings into scope
The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.
Counterparties that usually come with it
- an age-assurance provider
A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names
it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with
required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the
run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says
why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about,
never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.
In a declaration
This activity is a property of how software is offered, so only an
application or a service declares it, and only as
performs.
For an application
History
In the registry since version 1.0, .
In the glossary: Serves under-18s.
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