Facebook Skirts Lawmakers' Questions About Kiddie Version
Says no decision has been made to change current policies
If Facebook is working on a way for kids ages 12 and younger to join the social networking site, it's keeping those plans close to the vest. Not even a query from congressional privacy hawks Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.) could get the company to respond to a series of questions about how Facebook would handle child users or if it would target advertising to them.
"At this point, we have made no final decision whether to change our current approach of prohibiting children under 13 from joining Facebook," wrote Erin Egan, Facebook's chief policy officer.
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