Australia says Roblox hasn’t fixed its child predator problem
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 […]
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.
Originally published on The Verge
