Roblox, OpenAI, Google endorse safety defaults over parental controls, end to ‘self-declared age’
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New Delhi: Platforms should stop relying on users to declare their own age, a Roblox executive said Wednesday, as representatives of OpenAI, Google and Roblox said the burden of protecting children online must move from parents to settings built into products. “I think the age of self-declared age should be over. We live in the age of AI. We can age-verify,” said Nicky Jackson Colaco, Vice-President and Global Head of Public Policy at Roblox, at the Trust and Safety India Festival (TASI) 2026. Speaking on the panel ‘Forces Reshaping Trust & Safety in 2026’, Colaco said parental controls remained necessary but could not be the main safeguard. “Every company is incumbent upon them to not only offer them, but to offer them in a robust way.
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