Overview
- eSafety accepted the legally binding undertaking on Aug. 20, 2026 that gives Roblox three months to deliver specified technical and policy changes and to commission an independent third‑party audit.
- Regulator testing found adults could send connection requests to young Australian children without parental consent, view children’s profiles and biographies, and interact with them on forums outside games.
- Under the undertaking Roblox must prevent adults from contacting unknown children without parental permission, set children’s accounts to private by default, and improve reporting systems that notify users of complaint outcomes.
- The independent audit must assess the effectiveness of Roblox’s safety measures including its age‑estimation tools, and eSafety may apply to the Federal Court for orders if Roblox breaches the undertaking.
- Ministers have publicly pressed Roblox to act for the platform’s roughly 1.7 million Australian child users and media reports raise the prospect of substantial court penalties if the company fails to meet the deadline.