{
  "id": "POL-127",
  "slug": "pol-127",
  "title": "The policy must state its position on minors under 16",
  "statement": "The privacy policy must state whether the business has actual knowledge that it sells or shares the personal information of consumers under 16.",
  "rationale": "California treats under-16 data as requiring opt-in rather than opt-out, so the statement is the business declaring which regime it is in. For a messaging programme the answer should be trivially no, and saying so removes a question a reviewer would otherwise have to resolve from silence.",
  "layer": "POLICY_PAGE",
  "layerSlug": "policy-page",
  "object": "privacy policy body",
  "severity": "MEDIUM",
  "detectability": [
    "AI_FORM"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_POLICY",
  "artifact": "privacy_policy",
  "authorities": [
    "CCPA"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Add the sentence to the CCPA section. Done when the document answers the question rather than leaving it to inference.",
  "example": "We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-127/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-127.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}