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Australia says Roblox hasn’t fixed its child predator problem

Roblox is planning changes after Australia’s testing identified issues that ‘put children at risk.’

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Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia’s online safety regulator, e Safety.

e Safety 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, e Safety’s testing this year found that the platform “continued to put children at risk, including allowing contact between children and adult strangers.”

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 were visible to anyone on the Roblox platform; children’s profiles and biographies, including account names, number and names of connections, avatar images, and non-sensitive biographical information such as their interests were visible to anyone on the Roblox platform, with no option to restrict the visibility of this information.

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 were visible to anyone on the Roblox platform;

children’s profiles and biographies, including account names, number and names of connections, avatar images, and non-sensitive biographical information such as their interests were visible to anyone on the Roblox platform, with no option to restrict the visibility of this information.

Roblox believes it meets its Online Safety Act obligations, according to e Safety. But the company will be adding further safety measures that include:

preventing adults from contacting unknown children without parental consentstrengthening the account settings of children’s accounts so they are private by defaultaccessible reporting mechanisms that notify users of complaint outcomesengaging an independent third-party auditor to assess the effectiveness of its safety measures, including the deployment of its age-estimation measures.

preventing adults from contacting unknown children without parental consent

strengthening the account settings of children’s accounts so they are private by default

accessible reporting mechanisms that notify users of complaint outcomes

engaging an independent third-party auditor to assess the effectiveness of its safety measures, including the deployment of its age-estimation measures.

Roblox didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. In the US, Roblox is under investigation by a US Senate subcommittee and has been sued by multiple states over alleged child safety issues, though it has settled some state lawsuits. Earlier this year, the platform announced two new types of accounts for younger users that restrict certain games and chat features.

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