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Parents are helping their children bypass Roblox age checks and play as adults

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Parents are helping their children bypass Roblox age checks and play as adults
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Gaming company says it looks for signs a user may be younger than they appear in the age check process introduced in December

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Parents have been caught helping their children bypass age checks and play as adults on Roblox, the gaming company has said, forcing rechecks on accounts deemed younger than they appeared.

In December last year, Roblox rolled out new features to prevent children from chatting with adults they do not know by making users who wish to use the chat function pass through facial age assurance that then groups them in similar age group cohorts until they turn 21.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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