Australia Schedules Face Scans in Game Banks
Around the world, more or less meticulous attempts are made to regulate gambling. A central point here is the review of age. Self-exclusion in the event of addiction is also a topic that land-based gaming banks as well as online platforms deal with.
Australia is now thinking about a new path: A face check should be carried out in the online casino before users log into a page.
Protection of Minors
Gambling is only allowed after the age of majority. But it seems easy to avoid this rule, especially online. Therefore, face checks should now be used online in Australia. The software should then recognize the faces and decide whether they are minor players. Badges and driver's licenses are also important here to verify identity.
The authorities also plan to Software not just for online gaming banks. Other websites should also be denied minors in this way. Pages with pornographic content, for example, fall just under this desired youth protection, which, similar to online gaming banks, is difficult to ensure. It’s still easy to avoid age checks. Sometimes just a mouse click is enough to confirm that you are over 18 years old.
Better control for gambling risk
Not only minors should be Gambling be preserved, game addicts should also benefit from the software: For example, who has been locked, their face should be saved. If you then try to log in or register again, the software will deny access to the online gambling portal.
This point is also to be welcomed, because cross-casino software would be conceivable here. So it would be much harder to get into a new Online casino after you have already locked yourself with another one.
Is data protection guaranteed?
Although the idea sounds like a good thing at first glance, critics ask themselves: What about data protection? If third-party software is used, third-party companies receive sensitive player data. It is rightly noted here that the system is not yet sophisticated enough.
Such software takes player monitoring to a whole new level, which in turn applies to the entire Australian population.
All in all, Australia seems to be heading well here at first. Particularly online, it is important to regulate easy access to gambling. Face checks and identity verifications seem appropriate, but the topic of data protection is also not to be dismissed by hand.
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Letztlich bleibt auf ein ausgereiftes System zu hoffen, das sensible Daten vertraulich behandelt und lediglich die Informationen speichert, die für den Spielerschutz notwendig sind.