Gaming Platform Rolling Out Mandatory Facial Recognition

REPORT: A gaming platform used by nearly 36 million children is rolling out mandatory facial recognition, and the timing could not be more alarming.

What looks like “child safety” is quickly transforming into a real-world test run for a global digital ID system that pulls in both kids and adults.

Roblox, one of the world’s largest gaming platforms, is launching an age-verification program that scans users’ faces and sorts them into age brackets. Nearly 40% of its players are under 13. The company claims the images are deleted, but a third-party vendor, Persona, processes every frame. Persona is backed by Founders Fund, co-founded by Peter Thiel, a reported Epstein associate, raising serious questions about who is collecting children’s biometrics and for what purpose.

Civil liberties groups say this is exactly how permanent digital dossiers are created. Data breaches, location tracking, behavioral monitoring, and algorithmic profiling are already everywhere. Add a child’s face to that ecosystem and the stakes change forever.

If your kids use Roblox, you need to understand what this rollout really means.