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Roblox Starts Facial Age Verification for Chat Features
Roblox will require age verification using government IDs or AI facial scans to limit chat interactions by age group and reduce risks of adult-minor contact, with 150 million users globally.
- On Tuesday, Roblox announced voluntary facial age verification begins, with mandatory checks for chat access in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands starting December and global rollout next year.
- Public pressure from families and advocates follows multiple lawsuits by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others, with a petition of over 12,000 signatures and ParentsTogether Action planning a virtual protest Tuesday.
- Persona processes selfie images using AI to assign users to six age groups and deletes images after; users over 13 can appeal with ID and face fraud checks, Roblox says.
- Age-Based chat will limit conversations so children and teens on Roblox can only message peers in similar age groups, while the new Safety Center helps parents set controls and manage experiences.
- While Roblox touts the tool's accuracy, some experts have cautioned about reliability as Roblox declined to share an accuracy rate, third-party testing found a 1.37-year error, and breaches of about 70,000 IDs raise privacy concerns.
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Roblox set to start checking people’s ages. But it will need to do more to keep kids safe
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 as a move that sets a “safety gold standard” for the industry, it says it will be the first online gaming or communication platform to require facial age assurance to access chat features for all users. This requirement comes into effect in Austral…
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