Australia says Roblox hasn’t fixed its child predator problem
Australia's eSafety regulator has found that Roblox continues to fail in protecting children from adult contact despite previous safety updates. Roblox has committed to new measures, including private-by-default settings and third-party audits, to address these ongoing compliance concerns.
Why it matters
This highlights the growing global regulatory pressure on gaming platforms to implement stricter child safety protocols and age-verification standards.
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 were visible to anyone on the Roblox platform;
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