The popular kids’ gaming platform has a history of making safety tweaks that sound good in a press release but fall short in ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Information Science and Technology.

In context: Roblox is a gaming platform with a massive audience of teens and younger players. Authorities worldwide have criticized the service as a potential grooming ground for predators, but the ...

Roblox is in a tight spot. After years of reports involving child predators on Roblox, the company faces pressure from the public and government to clean up its platform. The company's solution, ...

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to message people ...

Last month, Kentucky attorney general Russell Coleman announced the details of yet another lawsuit against Roblox over suspected pedophiles lurking on the hugely popular gaming platform. While doing ...

A new lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General against Roblox has brought privacy, safety, and data handling into the spotlight for online platforms, especially those used by kids and teens. The ...

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, ...

Roblox CEO David Baszucki is taking heat for a recent podcast interview with the New York Times, in which he discussed the platform's new AI-powered age gating technology, dismissed accusations that ...

Stuart sting nabs Florida man sending explicit images to '13-year-old girl' A 22-year-old man is in custody after Stuart police say he tried to message a “13-year-old girl” who was really ...

Amid growing concerns about child safety, Roblox is rolling out age verification checks to prevent children from speaking with adults online. Roblox is one of the biggest gaming platforms in the world ...

New York (CNN) — If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation ...