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Australia has moved to strengthen Roblox child safety procedures after the country’s online safety regulator discovered gaps that could permit strangers to contact kids and view parts of their profiles without parental consent.

Roblox claimed to have made changes to its hugely popular children’s app to protect them from predators, but a regulatory authority says these protections are inadequate.

eSafety found in its tests that Roblox still allowed adult users to contact kids.

Roblox has three months to introduce additional child safety measures August 20, 2026 Prefer PocketGamer.biz on Google

Filtered By: Topstories News Published August 20, 2026 4:56pm + Add GMA on GoogleMake this your preferredand Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Thursday expressed his support to impose a total ban against online gaming platform Roblox following the fatal shooting at Ateneo de Zamboanga University

Online gaming platform Roblox has given a court-enforceable undertaking to Australia’s online safety regulator to do more “to protect children from grooming, sexual exploitation and abuse”.

Communications Minister Anika Wells has hit out at gaming giant Roblox saying it’s ‘talked a big game’ on complying with Australia’s under 16s ban but now ‘must deliver’.

Roblox Corp (RBLX) is the issuer for a Rule 144 notice filed in connection with planned sales of its common stock by Mark Reinstra. The notice lists a proposed sale of 6,250 shares of Roblox common stock through Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, with a proposed aggregate sale price of $235,437.50 as of August 19,…

Roblox is contributing three open-source safety models to the Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) Model Community. These include updates to our open-source PII Classifier, Roblox Sentinel, and our latest voice safety classifier. We’re also open-sourcing a new evaluation dataset that other companies can use to benchmark their own classifiers. Versions of these models already…

Regulator says verifiable safety measures are ‘critical’ to the online service’s