Last week, the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , signed and published, in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU), decree 12,110, which creates the National Secretariat for Sports Betting and Economic Development of Sport . The new secretariat, which reports to the Ministry of Sports, will be divided into the departments of Promotion, Entrepreneurship and…
Player Protection Hub Editor Steve Hoare takes Better Change’s free safer gambling training for a test drive
The National Council of Problem Gambling (NCPG) is holding its annual National Conference on Gambling Addiction & Responsible Gambling in San Diego this week (July 17-19). The conference is one of the oldest in the responsible gambling field and features experts from across the US and beyond. The agenda includes sessions on: Participants include regulators,…
IGT’s lottery customers have indicated that RG is their top priority, while gaming customers indicated that creating sustainable players for the future is their top priority. As part of the supplier’s Sustainability Plan, it conducted a survey “to better understand stakeholder perception of IGT’s role in RG, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement”. Lottery customers…
The government of the province of Buenos Aires announced a “ Comprehensive Plan for the Prevention and Treatment of Adolescent Gambling Addiction ”. Through this, the authorities seek to strengthen the mechanisms for preventing online gambling among minors and the treatment measures for those who suffer from pathological behavior. According to the Minister of Government, Carlos Bianco , the…
The local regulatory body Provincial Institute of Games and Casinos (IPJyC), together with the government of the city of Mendoza, announced that it will block unauthorized online gambling sites. According to the provincial regulator, it will send a list of illegal sites to the capital city municipality so that it can block access to them through public…
Experts at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) have urged the federal government to create a nationwide strategy for addressing potential gambling harms
New research from GambleAware in the UK suggests that over two-thirds of people believe there is too much gambling advertising and that more regulations are needed to control it. Sixty-seven percent of respondents to the survey by Ipsos said there is too much gambling advertising, with 72 percent supporting more regulations around television advertising and…
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) will consider a set of recommendations to limit advertising of gambling in the state. The recommendations from Dr Rachel Volberg, a Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, form part of the Social and Economic Impacts of Gambling in Massachusetts (SEIGMA) project. Volberg said her team “heartily endorses” the…
idPair has signed an agreement with the California Council on Problem Gambling that allows gamblers to self-exclude from California’s 60-plus card rooms using the newly-launched National Voluntary Self-Exclusion Program. Gamblers will be able to self-exclude online, unlike in the previous system where they had to do it in-person or by mail. The California deal follows…