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Roblox commits to court-enforceable child safety measures after eSafety finds adults can still contact kids
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Australia's eSafety regulator found Roblox still allowed adults to contact children, prompting Roblox to agree to a court-enforceable undertaking with new safety measures.
For engineers building social or gaming platforms, this shows that self-regulatory safety measures can be insufficient and that regulators will test them independently. Roblox now faces a binding deadline to implement specific technical changes, including default privacy for minors and contact restrictions, with third-party auditing. The case highlights the need for proactive safety design rather than reactive patches.
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eSafety tests found adults could still send connection requests to Australian children without parental consent and view underage users' profiles.
Roblox agreed to a court-enforceable undertaking to prevent unknown adults from contacting children, make children's accounts private by default, and add third-party auditing.
Roblox has three months to implement the measures or eSafety could ask a court to compel compliance.
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