Roblox is rolling out face-scanning age verification that will soon be required to use chat, but the biometric analysis is handled by a third-party company backed by major investors. This update is framed as safety, yet it raises serious questions about data extraction, long-term privacy risks, and how age-gating laws could affect every family online.

AI already scans our photos for ads and services—why not use it to detect child sexual abuse material, with strict safeguards, to protect kids from harm?

Teens are downloading other Chinese apps in protest of a potential TikTok ban, highlighting flaws in performative policy and demanding broader digital reform.