After the latest restriction on the internet, officials describe receiving “many” letters from children wanting access to the ...

The San Mateo, Calif., company has faced scrutiny over child safety concerns but has been rolling out new features to protect ...

On Wednesday, Australia implemented a historic piece of legislation banning social media for all citizens under the age of 16 ...

Roblox's decision to remove some of the badges from user profiles is met with unease from fans, who fear more changes may be ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Information Science and Technology.

The popular kids’ gaming platform has a history of making safety tweaks that sound good in a press release but fall short in ...

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph ...

This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents? By Kevin ...

Two new lawsuits filed in Los Angeles and Riverside counties accuse the popular online platforms of creating an unsafe ...

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know. By Jenny Gross The online gaming platform Roblox this week rolled out a new ...

A Los Angeles County mother said her daughter met a sexual predator on the popular children’s gaming platform Roblox, ...