Roblox has rolled out the most important updates to its parental controls in a bid to improve user safety, providing parents with maximum control. The popular digital gaming platform is widely used by children and tweens, making new features that allow ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Roblox is making two big changes to its wildly popular online gaming platform used by millions of children globally. The San Mateo-headquartered tech company has been criticized by some parents for lacking online security safeguards.

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Roblox will scan video selfies of teens to assess their ages as part of a new Trusted Connections feature that gives users access to unfiltered chatting with people they know. Roblox is rolling out new features aimed at making the platform safer for minors ...

Speaking to Yahoo Life last year about safety concerns, Laura Higgins, Roblox’s director of community safety and civility, said, "We update our filters continuously, multiple times a day.” Higgins added that, "For users under 13, our filters are even ...

Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age-estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ...

While the kid-oriented MMOs of yesteryear were imperfect, the modern equivalent, Roblox, carries even bigger problems.