In the U.S., there is a statute—the acronym is COPPA, I believe—that prohibits the collection of information about children under 13. In Canada, we don't have that kind of legislation for a number of reasons. I think one is the fact that PIPEDA is framed in terms of general principles, one of them being consent. So consent is required for the collection, use, and disclosure of information. Consent must be meaningful and informed. For children under a certain age, certainly it cannot be informed or meaningful, so we don't have a definite age limit and an outright prohibition, but we get a similar outcome in a different way.
Certainly as well, I believe that because the age of majority in Canada is a matter for provincial legislators to legislate on, the federal PIPEDA has not sought to define an age of majority in the past. Now does that mean that it could not be done in concert with provinces to have an absolute prohibition? It could. This is something that could be done. But I think we get that, or something pretty close, with the legislation we have.