By India McCarty
Roblox is rolling out new age-verification safety measures as they continue to face scrutiny for not properly protecting young users.
“Roblox Kids and Roblox Select launch globally today, aligning users’ access to games and features with their age,” a press release from the popular gaming site announced. “Users are automatically placed into the appropriate account for their age.”
Roblox is asking users to either verify their age with their government-issued ID or through AI-powered face-scanning technology.
Roblox gives NBC News an exclusive look at the biometric age-checking tool that that will be used to place users into age-based accounts. https://t.co/iBEwsOO0q4
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 15, 2026
Eliza Jacobs, Roblox’s vice president of safety product policy, told NBC that the company sees these new measures as “an investment in the long-term vision of Roblox.”
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“We’re optimistic that it will continue to get better and better. But as compared to picking your birthday on a drop-down list, it’s much more accurate,” she explained. “Ticking a box to say you’re 13 or older, it’s not enough anymore.”
Jacobs continued, “Certainly no system is perfect, and we know that sometimes it will get it wrong. We want to have a balance between being able to correct something that’s wrong, but also not letting people abuse the system.”
“We have a long-term vision of safety and civility on the platform that we’re building towards that we believe in,” she finished. “It’s OK if some people are not always happy about that.”
These new safety features come amid complaints from many parents who claim Roblox’s platform does not properly protect children who use the gaming site. Several states have brought lawsuits against Roblox as well, accusing the platform of exploiting its young users.
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a suit that alleged sexual predators have “repeatedly used Roblox to groom and eventually abduct and sexually assault children.”
“For years, Roblox has known that it has a pedophile problem,” the suit continued. “It built an extremely popular interactive gaming and social media platform by doing what other social media companies would not: marketing to and accepting pre-teenage users. As a result, Roblox became, in its own words, the ‘#1 gaming site for kids and teens.’”
Roblox has settled similar suits with Alabama and West Virginia, with Roblox Chief Safety Officer Matt Kaufman stressing their desire to “work together” with state governments to protect children.
“We have no finish line when it comes to safety, and we are grateful for the Attorney General’s advocacy in pioneering this path forward,” he added.
While Roblox still has work to do to continue protecting its younger users, these new measures are an encouraging step forward for the platform.
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