Minor Consent Check

Screen minor-subject consent and identity-protection facts.

Description

A minor-consent screen compares age with a caller-defined consent age and records guardian consent and identity concealment.

A minor-consent screen compares age with a caller-defined consent age and records guardian consent and identity concealment. The flags describe the supplied scenario.^[1]

Screen minor-subject consent and identity-protection facts.

When to use Minor Consent Check

Use this tool to screen minor-subject consent and identity-protection facts.

Prepare the text, recorded observations, aligned figures or editorial criteria requested. Confirm what each label, count, timestamp or supplied flag represents before interpreting the result.

How to use Minor Consent Check and understand its results

Prepare the text, recorded observations, aligned figures or editorial criteria requested. Confirm what each label, count, timestamp or supplied flag represents before interpreting the result.
Enter subjectAge, consentAge, guardianConsentDocumented, identityConcealed using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read minor, consentGap, publicationStatus. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
subjectAge	Subject age	integer; minimum: 0	Required
consentAge	Consent age	integer; minimum: 0	Required
guardianConsentDocumented	Guardian consent documented	boolean	Required
identityConcealed	Identity concealed	boolean	Required

Enter nonnegative integer ages and booleans. Return minor status, consent-gap flag and recommendation: hold for an unconcealed consent gap, otherwise review for any minor, otherwise cleared.

minor=age<consentAge; gap=minor AND not guardianConsent

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
minor	Subject is a minor	boolean
consentGap	Required consent missing	boolean
publicationStatus	Publication status	string; one of "cleared", "hold", "review"

json

{
  "input": {
    "subjectAge": 15,
    "consentAge": 18,
    "guardianConsentDocumented": false,
    "identityConcealed": false
  },
  "output": {
    "minor": true,
    "consentGap": true,
    "publicationStatus": "hold"
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

No jurisdictional law, valid consent or safeguarding outcome is determined.

Numeric inputs must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors. A successfully returned false flag is an evaluated outcome; its meaning is explained above.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Archive Redaction Screen: Screen archived content for redaction or access restriction. For a complementary task, use UGC Permission Coverage: Audit user-generated-content permission records.

References

Minor Consent Check — tool.io

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Archive Redaction Screen
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