Roblox is a popular online gaming platform for children. But it's also a place where people who want to exploit children know they can find an audience. On Thursday, Roblox announced Roblox Sentinel, ...

Roblox will not let users under the age of 13 message others outside of games and experiences on the platform, the company said Friday. Roblox also announced a series of other built-in protections for ...

Children under 13 also won’t be able to directly message other players unless they have parental approval. Children under 13 also won’t be able to directly message other players unless they have ...

Roblox chat filters will soon have reduced restrictions for users on the sandbox game platform who can verify that they're 13 or older, the company revealed as part of its Roblox Developer Conference ...

Formerly known as Friends, Roblox's chat feature has now turned into Connections, according to Ryan Ebanks, a Roblox principal product manager for social products. He added that the new tech will ...

Built to spot grooming and child endangerment through chat pattern analysis. Sentinel scans over six billion messages daily in real-time. Trained on past violations of Roblox’s child-endangerment ...

The AI system has detected and reported 1,200 cases to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children this year. Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven ...