Roblox is tightening access to its chat features by rolling out mandatory facial age verification worldwide, following months ...

The age-check system relies primarily on facial age estimation using a video selfie captured through a device camera.

Online sleuths quickly found that some accounts posting about U.S. politics, including those in support of the MAGA movement, appeared not to be based in the United States. By Yan Zhuang X launched a ...

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 ...

The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn, as US and UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet. “Based on our real-world ...

Roblox is rolling out a video age verification system to limit private messaging to users in similar age groups. The platform will begin enforcing the checks in Australia, New Zealand, and the ...

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The big picture: While Google maintains that identity verification will enhance security and trust across the platform, open-source communities remain concerned that even a softened version of the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against him by a tech industry trade association, which seeks to block him from enforcing a state law that ...

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries can start checking their online customer portals and ebtEDGE apps to verify their benefit amounts. The Tennessee Department of Human Services ...