The safety measures include banning direct messaging and ‘voice chats’ between adult and child users.
Roblox has committed to introducing the changes by the end of the year.
Roblox
Roblox is an online gaming platform popular with children. It allows users to create their own games and talk to other players online.
It was released in 2006 and is available on gaming consoles, phones and tablets, and computers. Roblox says it has 111.8 million daily users, with revenue of $US1 billion ($AU1.7 billion) in April to June 2025.
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said Roblox “has become a popular target for paedophiles seeking to groom children.”
New measures
Roblox will:
- Prevent adults from messaging and contacting children under the age of 16 without their parents’ consent.
- Make under-16s’ accounts private by default.
- Prevent adult users from using the voice chat feature with users aged between 13 and 15-years-old. Children under 13 are currently not allowed to use voice chat at all.
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- Introduce parental controls to disable the chat feature for users aged 13 to 15.
Comments
Inman Grant said eSafety told Roblox that “under Australian law they are required to take meaningful action to prioritise the protection of children.”
Roblox has not issued a statement.
The platform announced earlier this month it would expand age verification technology, using facial recognition, ID verification, and parental consent to “provide a more accurate measure of a user's age.”
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