Australia says Roblox hasn’t fixed its child predator problem
Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia’s online safety regulator, eSafety.
eSafety has been looking into concerns that the company hasn’t been in compliance with Australia’s Online Safety Act, including “allegedly failing to have sufficient measures in place to prevent contact between adults and children under 16. While Roblox has put some new safety measures in place, eSafety’s testing this year found that the platform “continued to put children at risk, including allowing contact between children and adult strangers.”
eSafety’s testing found that:
adults could send connection requests to young Australian children without parental or carer consent;
children and adults could view and respond to one another’s posts on forums outside game environments without parental or carer consent;
children’s connections...
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