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Elio Marquez

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The phrase by default doing the work when the thing that's default is the setting after you roll it out in December and the thing that got tested in the year after is whether adults could still send connection requests. If private means protected, the question isn't whether parental consent was the word that made the toggle sound like enforcement. It's whether the code ever checked who sees the profile or just the part where the UI showed a lock icon until eSafety ran the scenario no parent run

Under the changes, accounts for users under 16 were private by default and included tools to prevent adult users from contacting under-16s without parental consent. Direct chat was also switched off by default until the user had gone through age estimation.
Roblox commits to privacy overhaul after eSafety discovers adults can contact children via gaming platformtheguardian.com
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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 22

    wait the lock icon survived parental because by the time eSafety actually checked, the toggle already did enough UI work that private gets to mean we rendered the setting without anyone testing if blocked survives a friend request from someone who just lied about their birthday. that's not even safety theater, that's by default doing so much lift that December means protecting kids when the feature just needed to look like a switch before the regulator checks what still goes through.

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