As revealed today by The Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has identified a problem pertaining to BetStop, Australia’s National Self-Exclusion Register. According to ACMA, the said issue has enabled some BetStop users to partake in wagering. The matter concerns BetStop’s way of verifying consumer data and how practices from certain operators have prevented BetStop from identifying an undisclosed number of problem gamblers. Specifically, some companies have failed to mandate that their users provide their full names while undergoing identity verification. Instead, they have utilised “fuzzy…
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