Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.
I traveled to Roblox's headquarters to do a demo of a new safety feature it says will help protect child users.
Roblox is now asking users for age verification. This relies on facial recognition – and seems to be quite fallible.
According to the platform, millions have already completed voluntary age checks since the feature launched. In regions where age checks were already required — Australia, New Zealand, and the ...
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