The popular children's gaming platform has tens of millions of users. Roblox is introducing a new safety measure aimed at protecting its young users amid a recent increase in lawsuits against the ...

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 ...

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.

Roblox, the global online game and social platform with more than 150 million daily users, has announced a major update to how users can communicate: a new age-based chat system that uses facial ...

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 ...

Roblox cracks down: Given the growing number of lawsuits accusing Roblox of endangering children, the company is implementing one of its largest safety updates to date. The company claims that in the ...

I traveled to Roblox's headquarters to do a demo of a new safety feature it says will help protect child users.

Roblox is among the most downloaded online games in the world, reporting millions of daily users from across the globe of all ages, mostly children and teenagers. Many have criticized the rise of ...

A new series of age checks and chat groupings are coming to Roblox that are meant to keep children from falling prey to predators. Despite its massive popularity among young gamers, Roblox has come ...

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 ...

Roblox, one of the most popular kids’ apps in the world, is now requiring children as young as nine years old to submit a video selfie for age verification. While the developer is doing this for good ...