INFO 188 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Roblox, Data Mining, Peer Pressure
27 Dec 2018
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This is an online gaming platform who"s main demographic is kids. They claim that they are not giving away children"s information. there are safety precautions where they remove any inappropriate material and allow for parental oversight, where parents can control for the selection of chat options. They claim that they have compliance with coppa and that they are not sharing information with third parties. Rape" and other inappropriate material displayed on their pages, with games such as mad murderer. In terms of how deception plays into this, roblox presents itself as children friendly gaming platform but their filtering system is not doing a sufficient job in doing so. They claim that they are completely free to join and free to download. However, there is peer pressure and addiction to such games that would compel children to make purchases. Children can make an account saying that they are older than 13 to make those purchases.
