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Less Privacy for More Protection

The online casino betting situation in Australia is one of those areas of international concern in recent months – the Australian government is considering all sorts of new and invasive regulations measures as a way to block illegal gambling companies and supposedly keep Aussie gamblers safer. Specifically, although internet betting is legal, the online casinos are still strictly banned. As this situation continues to come to a head, the internet betting industry is looking to up the safeguards and safety protection measures that Australian betting companies have at their disposal to protect gamblers. Major land and online betting operator, Betfair, has requested that the Australian Productivity Commission change some of the current laws so that internet betting companies will have limited access to public records.

The idea behind this is really quite simple – if the online casinos and internet betting companies have access to closed personal and private public records they can better protect consumers and block out underage gamblers from the sites. Identity verification is a growing issue in the online casino gambling and betting industries and the Australian companies are eager to have new procedures in place that will not only provide additional protection to the gamblers, but will also safeguard the internet gambling companies themselves.

Some of the proposed information requested by Betfair includes birth and death records, marriage records, motor vehicle registration information, and a few other only mild invasive matters of public record. With readily available access to this information the online casino betting sites would better be able to identify and control just who is gambling. This process is already highly effective in other parts of the world, specifically the European market.