Roblox rolls out facial scans to Australia amid rising safety concerns

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Gaming giant Roblox will introduce compulsory facial recognition age checks from December 2025, promising to limit adult contact with young players in Australia as part of the new e-safety regulations across social media. This video includes ACM-produced voiceover powered by AI.

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00:00A huge change has landed on Roblox and with millions of young Aussies logging

00:05on every month, parents this one's for you. From early December Roblox will

00:11introduce facial recognition age checks for players with access to chat now

00:15locked behind a scan of the user's face to separate adults from children online

00:20and reduce the risk of unknown adults contacting minors. Our filters are

00:25designed to block inappropriate content and protect everyone's privacy. The

00:30system will be compulsory for all Australian accounts from early December

00:34ahead of a global rollout in January. Roblox has clarified an AI system will

00:40estimate the players age, place them in an appropriate age group, then delete the

00:45image immediately with a promise of neither the platform nor third-party

00:49partners keeping a copy of the data. Age groups now range from under nine through

00:55to over 21, and players are only placed in communication spaces with users in a

01:00similar age band. You set the boundaries, we help keep them. Users who choose not to

01:07complete the scan could still play Roblox, but chat and communication

01:11features will be disabled.

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