{
  "slug": "verifiable-parental-consent",
  "title": "Prove you are the parent. Without proving who you are.",
  "summary": "COPPA's approved consent methods verify a card, an email, or a document. None of them verifies a parent. Here is the gap and how to close it.",
  "lede": "A privacy law written to stop companies collecting data about children now requires companies to collect a payment card, a government document, or a video call from the child's parent. Every approved method verifies an instrument. None of them verifies a parent. Here is the gap, and what closing it actually looks like.",
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "reading_time": "18 min read",
  "category": "Regulated",
  "tags": [
    "COPPA",
    "verifiable parental consent",
    "children's privacy",
    "age verification",
    "consent receipt",
    "edtech"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Verifiable%20Parental%20Consent/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/verifiable-parental-consent.html",
  "wordcount": 4719,
  "related": [
    "age-verification-without-id",
    "esignature-proves-the-mailbox",
    "revocation-that-propagates"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}