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On May 6, Nintendo changed their Privacy and Poilcy. The changes are added for the new GameChat feature. In the process of changing the policy, any user cannot touch/access their data unless they accept. Another issue is that for certain account, you cannot accept the new Privacy and Poilcy making the account inaccessible.
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On May 6, '''[[Nintendo]]''' changed their Privacy and Policy to cover functionality of the new GameChat feature. Users are permanently locked out of their Nintendo account until they accept the new terms and conditions. In addition to Nintendo forcing you accept their new terms, some users are unable accept the new conditions due to a technical oversight by Nintendo rendering affected user's accounts inaccessible.


==Background==
==Background==
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==User's account inaccessible==
==User's account inaccessible==
Nintendo's email system have always had problem in the past, with this new change, children's account are being told to make their parent accept the new policy. While this being a good idea, the emails are not going throuh or account with no email or parents are still being asked to send an email to nowhere.
Nintendo's email system has always had problems in the past. With this new change, children's accounts are being told to make their parent accept the new policy. While this is a good idea, the emails are not going through or accounts with no email or parents are still being asked to send an email to nowhere, making these accounts inaccessible and game data locked until a fix is issued.


===Nintendo's response===
===Nintendo's response===
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