The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Roblox has been criticized for its child safety issues, but argues ...

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who killed himself is suing Roblox and Discord for wrongful death, alleging the apps’ lack of guardrails allowed her son to be sexually coerced by an adult predator ...

A Johnson County father filed a federal lawsuit against Roblox on Nov. 19, alleging that the online gaming platform enabled the sexual exploitation of his 11-year-old daughter. The father, identified ...

Two 14-year-old girls sued the gaming giant Roblox and chat platform Discord this month, in separate lawsuits that accuse the two Bay Area tech companies of providing a “hunting ground for child-sex ...

Roblox is one of the world’s most popular kids’ games, but lawsuits around the country allege predators are hiding in plain sight.