Florida Attorney General Uthmeier sues Roblox, claiming "serious failures" to protect children from sexual predators

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that his office is suing gaming site Roblox for misrepresenting the ...
The New York Times

Roblox, Where Kids Game and Chat, Will Analyze Users’ Faces to Verify Age

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 ...
The New York Times

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.

This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents? By Kevin ...
The Independent

Roblox takes rare step to prevent children from talking with adults on gaming platform

Online gaming giant Roblox has just announced it will start checking users’ ages from early December in an attempt to stop children and teenagers talking with adults. In what the company has described ...
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No face, no chat: Roblox to roll out age-check tech in major safety overhaul

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IT News For Australia Business

Chatty Australian Roblox users face mandatory facial age checks

Australian gamers who want use Roblox's in-game chat service will have to submit to a facial age verification check from next month. The system is available to Australian Roblox users on a voluntary ...
IEEE

FaceNet: A unified embedding for face recognition and clustering

Despite significant recent advances in the field of face recognition [10, 14, 15, 17], implementing face verification and recognition efficiently at scale presents serious challenges to current ...
CBC.ca

Roblox increases safety guidelines with age verification, grouping users into age-based chats

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

Roblox is rolling out face ID age checks to stop older players from chatting to kids, but will it actually work?

As various countries continue to crack down on online safety, Roblox has confirmed that it's rolling out a new age verification system for players who want to use the in-game chat feature. The system ...
Variety

Roblox to Require All Users to Verify Age With Facial Estimation Tech to Access Chat Features Beginning in December

Roblox will launch facial age checks as a requirement for all users who want to access communication features beginning next month. The gaming platform has also implemented age-based chats to limit ...
CNN

Lawsuits claim Roblox endangers kids. New AI age verification aims to block them from chatting with adults

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 tool photograph ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

The best Roblox games

The name Welcome to Bloxburg sets an appropriate tone: this is a really good starting point if you're brand-new to Roblox. This town-and-city themed sandbox social sim has been around since 2014 and ...