The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know. By Jenny Gross The online gaming platform Roblox this week rolled out a new ...

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.

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Roblox is the first online gaming or communication platform to require facial age checks to access chat, establishing a new industry standard. The rollout began with a voluntary age check period. The ...

The wildly popular online gaming platform Roblox has started rolling out facial age verification to enhance its security measures. The move follows a string of lawsuits alleging the platform has ...

Following a spate of lawsuits and investigations over its child safety systems, Roblox is going to implement mandatory facial verification for all users who want to access communication features, ...

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, ...