Holiday-Shopping Cheat Sheet! Here’s What Nearly 50% of Kids Want for Christmas This Year

Drumroll, please! More than 43% of U.S. kids want in-game currency for video games as a holiday gift, according to a survey ...

Don’t trust Roblox to shield kids from predators — our lawsuit exposes its dangers

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

Roblox Blocked In Russia For "Negatively Impacting" Children

The country's communications watchdog said the platform's distribution of extremist materials, including "LGBT propaganda," ...

Teaching Kids Gambling Through Roblox Is a Wild Idea

Roblox's CEO suggested that in-game betting could be a fun and educational tool, seemingly failing to account for all the ...
NBC Los Angeles

SoCal families sue Roblox, claiming their children were exposed to predators on gaming platform

A Los Angeles County mother said her daughter met a sexual predator on the popular children’s gaming platform Roblox, claiming the company is not doing enough to protect vulnerable players who are too ...
Indiatimes

Roblox implements new age verification for chat features: What the new facial age checks mean for kids, parents and moderators

Roblox is introducing a new age-based chat system. Users will undergo age verification using facial scans or government IDs. This will place them into narrow age groups, restricting private chats ...
The Conversation

Roblox set to start checking people’s ages. But it will need to do more to keep kids safe

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.
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 ...
9to5Mac

Roblox is requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie for age verification

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 ...
Dexerto

Florida AG says Roblox ignored predator risks in explosive Chris Hansen interview

Florida’s Attorney General claims Roblox ignored predator risks as the platform now faces a criminal investigation over child ...
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How to Keep Your Car Clean with Kids: The Hack Every Parent Needs!

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

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 ...