New York Governor Kathy Hochul is aiming to improve online safety for children and is targeting Roblox (RBLX), planning to tout at her State of the State speech on Tuesday age verification laws and new requirements for online platforms, The Verge’s Lauren Feiner reports. As part of the governor’s latest bill on the matter, the New York Children’s Online Safety Act, Hochul intends to expand requirements for platforms to verify their users’ ages to include online gaming platforms and wants platforms to keep children’s’ accounts on the highest privacy settings by default so they can’t be viewed or contacted by unknown accounts, the author says. The plan also would disable AI chatbot features for kids and includes requirements for parents to be able to limit financial transactions on their children’s accounts, the author notes.
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