"We're making two fundamental changes, said Matt Kaufman, the chief safety officer at the games company worth about $92bn. By the end of the year, we will require all users who have access to communication on Roblox to go through an age check process or age estimation process. What that process does is it gives us more information about how old the user actually is without relying on their self-reported age at sign up."
"That's important, both for young users, so that we know whether they're really at the right age to be able to use communication features. And it also helps address bad actors who may try to impersonate younger users. The second thing we're doing is we're implementing limits so that younger users cannot talk to adults who they do not know in real life."
Roblox will implement mandatory age checks or age estimation for all users with access to text and chat features by the end of 2025. The platform will restrict younger users from communicating with adults they do not already know in real life. Experiments found children as young as five may be able to communicate with adults while playing games, prompting safety changes. Roblox currently only requires proof that a user is over 13 to allow communication. Last year Roblox submitted more than 24,000 reports to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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