eSafety secures Roblox child safety undertaking

Australia's online safety regulator has secured a binding legal agreement from gaming platform Roblox to implement stronger protections for children, following tests that found adults could still contact minors on the service despite previous safety upgrades. The eSafety Commission announced on August 20, 2026, that it had accepted a court-enforceable undertaking from the company, giving it three months to put new measures in place or face potential court action.

The undertaking comes after eSafety testing earlier this year identified significant gaps in Roblox's safety systems. Regulators found that adults could send connection requests to Australian children without parental consent, and that both adults and children could view and respond to each other's posts on community forums. The tests also revealed that any user could view an underage user's connections, profiles, biographies, account names, and avatar images, with no option to restrict this visibility.

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said her department had been engaging with Roblox "for some time at senior levels" about these concerns. "The company has responded, making a number of improvements to its service,"...