Roblox is implementing a new safety measure that requires facial age verification to access chat features following its involvement in a lawsuit that accuses the gaming platform of causing harm to children.

Roblox will soon require facial age verification for all chat features, enforcing age-based communication groups and introducing major safety upgrades to protect younger users globally.

Roblox has been accused of not doing enough to protect children on its platform, but some feel its new safety rule is a step too far.

Roblox CEO David Baszucki joined CNN’s Pamela Brown to discuss new safety measures to protect young users, including AI-age verification technology. The announcement comes after a growing number of lawsuits that say the platform allegedly failed to deter sexual predators from targeting minors on the popular gaming platform.

Roblox is introducing a new age-based chat system. Users will undergo age verification using facial scans or government IDs. This will place them into

Roblox will soon block children from chatting with adults using new facial age checks and age-based chat limits, rolling out after multiple grooming-related lawsuits.

The rules will make it so kids and teens can only message people within a similar age group to their own. The moves come as the popular gaming platform continues to face criticism and lawsuits over child safety and a growing number of countries and jurisdictions are implementing age verification laws.

The age-verification tool uses facial recognition to put players into specific age groups before they can chat online.