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The Fine Line of Protection

Free and democratic nations all over the world have to walk a fine line when it comes to overstepping boundaries in the name of protection for its people. This issue is now cropping up in the online caisno gambling industry as the European Parliament is considering new laws and legislation that would provide higher levels of protection for user data on the internet. Europeans enter their personal and private information in any number of a dozen of sites and Parliament is considering measures that can be put in place to ensure that the information stays private from the criminals, but also from excessive interference from the government.

The US has encountered this issue in the past and controversially instituted the Patriot Act, which drastically reduced the privacy of citizens in any number of situations, including the internet. For the European parliament, the new attempts to provide protections to internet users would be to specifically address the criminality that is cropping up in the online caisno gambling industry.

Basically, the Parliament is considering instituting additional monitoring measures and basic standards that all of the internet based companies, including the online casinos, would have to adhere to in the name of user data protection. Concerns are already mounting though that this will “turn our societies stealthily into a Big Brother society,” commented the Greek MEP, Stavros Lambrinidis. There is that concern, and it is valid, at this point Lambrinidis is preparing a report on the issue that will then be up for discussion before any new laws are implemented.