Gambling house responisbilty to protect people data

[Zlantann]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

Most of this gambling companies usually use big wins for advertisement. They use customers that have won big to prove to the public that one can win big using their platforms. Every gambling company have their terms and conditions that every user should carefully read. Most times their regulations might include the right to use winners for publicity or advertisement.

It would be unlawful to disclose the details of winner without his permission if it is not included in the T&C. Taking legal action against the gambling house would depend on the law of the country the gambling firm is registered or operating from. If the law grants the right for a customer to sue the company for revealing of private or personal details to the public, then gamblers should consider legal actions.      

[Silberman]

Everyone is annoyed by the endless KYC requirements, and if the casino still prescribes the publicization of players who have received large winnings, then this is already too much, but there will certainly be players who will be quite satisfied with it, because large winnings are very rare and some people have a craving to become famous. But if the rules of the casino do not provide for publicity and they do it, then it is illegal and immoral.

If people wanted to become famous through gambling, they would probably be happy with the KYC at gambling sites. But the thing is that majority of people only want to gamble without disclosing who they are. How can they be happy, if the casino makes them in the spotlight and start marketing that this person has won this much amount of money? This is just beyond imagination.

I don't know if the legal provides covers to the gamblers on this matter, but one thing is for sure if any gambling site tries to do it with me to make my data exposed in front of the public, I may quit that casino forever.

I have not seen an online casino been this brazen before, however this is more common when we are talking about lotteries in which they even post pictures of the winners, however as far as I know the winners have the opportunity to refuse to let their faces being showed on their website, this is simply because this is their right but also because as we know criminals are always looking for people with a lot of money, and someone that just won the lottery is the perfect target for people like them.

[panganib999]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

Some gambling houses do so to attract people and serve as a proof that all their winners are true people. Which I do not think really works especially if the industry you built your business upon is already deep in the mire of scandals and issues to begin with. People who get posted publicly could impose sanctions to the gambling house by suing them, because as you said, it violates their rights to privacy and protection of the data they entrusted to the gambling casino. But some get away with this due to the terms and conditions, so I would also suggest to skim through some of the pointers included in the terms and conditions agreement of every site you visit, especially gambling houses to ensure you're not getting one up'd

[Outhue]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

They don't have to ask.

Every gamblers that won big must be protected at all costs and that's by hiding the winner's identity.

If they want to promote their companies through their numbers of winners they must hide their names, if they have to use live video the winner's face must be hidden on camera.

Where I come from someone won big money and friends around told him to buy drinks at a bar near by but he was poisoned on that same day by an unknown person. It shows that people don't like seeing others progress.

[QueenVera]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

One of the major problem we have is that we don't take out our time to review the term and conditions of a casino or it's entire policies.
Most of this casinos reserve the right to post and publicize every major winnings on their site and casino, because posting this winnings also helps to encourage more people to using their casino and one of the major reasons they post this winnings to show to their players their payout capacity.
The world basically believe what they see, so going to a court without first reading the terms isn't worth it and I'm sure many people might have also thought of this because it is another means to make cool cash too.

I'm not on the opinion that posting the winnings of a player without it's consent is right but we should know that i would have been stated clearly in their terms of winnings ad it's policies but the best they would have done is to first inform the winner before posting the winnings as the better makes the winner feel safer.

[traderethereum]

I think gambler companies announce big win to promote their company and to give new customers assurance how reliable they are. This may be doing them good by promoting their company but has some disadvantage for customers. I Normally come across some people on social media news who won big in gambling,  I'm sure it is not the best.

Gambling companies can indeed announce big wins to the public.
Still, they should be able to hide the winner's identity from the public because it can endanger the winner's safety from people with bad intentions.
Perhaps the intent of the gambling company announcing the big win was to attract more gamblers to gamble at their place.
And it could be that this strategy has successfully attracted many gamblers who want to experience that big win.
Indirectly, this might give the gambling company a reputation for being a recommended gambling place.

[EarnOnVictor]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

It's true that people have a right to their privacy, but often, privacies have been sold unknowingly by many. You might be chasing the shadow of yourself at times when you sue companies in court since you might have ignorantly agreed to such terms. This is why it's good to first read the terms and conditions of the companies you want to deal with.

This is not peculiar to gambling, it's everywhere. If such terms and conditions do not satisfy your person, then you might respectfully decline instead of claiming a right that has been sold.

[Docnaster]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

I don't know if the gambling companies publish the winner and also the identity of the winner. In stake.com I have seen them publish winnings along side the username of the gamblers. But they don't provide more information about the user. If there is any company that publishes the user details check well in their terms and conditions if it is written there, many things we overlook have been dumped in their terms and condition and can be used against you anytime.

[AicecreaME]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

They don't have to ask.

Every gamblers that won big must be protected at all costs and that's by hiding the winner's identity.

If they want to promote their companies through their numbers of winners they must hide their names, if they have to use live video the winner's face must be hidden on camera.

Where I come from someone won big money and friends around told him to buy drinks at a bar near by but he was poisoned on that same day by an unknown person. It shows that people don't like seeing others progress.

This is right.

It is the gambling website or lottery company's responsibility to protect the identity of every winners they'll have in order to ensure their privacy and security. This is done to safeguard the lives of the winner as well as their winning prize because once other people knew the identity of the jackpot winner, they will be vulnerable from all sorts of threat such as robbery and even murder. Their peaceful lives would be at stake too once the public knew their identity. Paparazzi, relatives, friends, and even acquaintance might bother them just to have a portion of their prize.

This is why the gambler's identity must really be protected unless they agreed or they initiated to be publicly announced their identity. It will be the agreement of the both parties with that scenario. After all, consent is always needed in cases such as this that concerns big amount of money and security as well.

[Oasisman]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

I don't know if the gambling companies publish the winner and also the identity of the winner. In stake.com I have seen them publish winnings along side the username of the gamblers. But they don't provide more information about the user. If there is any company that publishes the user details check well in their terms and conditions if it is written there, many things we overlook have been dumped in their terms and condition and can be used against you anytime.

Of course the scenario are most probably not gonna happen in any crypto casino. They can post the username, but not the real name of the user nor any of his information.
And, yeah most people tend to just skip the TOS and jump into gambling right away, missing all the terms that could be used against you.
Sometimes, we don't even look at the online casino on whether or not it has license to operate.
There is nothing much a person can do if he win big and was disclosed his personal info, if it was not listed in the TOS nor the online casino does not have license.

[RealMalatesta]

Of course the scenario are most probably not gonna happen in any crypto casino. They can post the username, but not the real name of the user nor any of his information.
And, yeah most people tend to just skip the TOS and jump into gambling right away, missing all the terms that could be used against you.
Sometimes, we don't even look at the online casino on whether or not it has license to operate.
There is nothing much a person can do if he win big and was disclosed his personal info, if it was not listed in the TOS nor the online casino does not have license.

I believe that the whole sharing of real name thing must be done if there is a proven scam or abuse going on. Why not do that? They deserve it if they have done something that will end up with their face and name plastered everywhere.

If you steal from a casino then you deserve it, that should be the main reason why KYC is even asked for, if you steal from the casino this information will be shared could be told to everyone who registers. I dislike KYC and try to avoid it as much as possible, but I would love it if there was a website with KYC information of people who tried or achieved to steal from casinos, that would make a lot of sense if you ask me.

[ethereumhunter]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

It's true that people have a right to their privacy, but often, privacies have been sold unknowingly by many. You might be chasing the shadow of yourself at times when you sue companies in court since you might have ignorantly agreed to such terms. This is why it's good to first read the terms and conditions of the companies you want to deal with.

This is not peculiar to gambling, it's everywhere. If such terms and conditions do not satisfy your person, then you might respectfully decline instead of claiming a right that has been sold.

That's why we really have to be able to find gambling sites or other sites that can really maintain the privacy of our customers. We won't hear that customer data is being sold to other parties.

But if a casino site makes the mistake of disclosing the winner's identity, we can find it difficult to bring it to court because it will cost a lot of money, especially if it's a big casino. Such a casino could easily pay the people who handled the case to get it resolved properly. And instead of us hoping to get that winning money, we probably won't be able to get anything. Actually, it may be the customers who will get the impact but we also can't do anything but just follow it.

[BITCOIN4X]

I believe that every casino is obligated to protect the important data of its customers especially if it poses a risk to the customer. But I don't think you have to hide your customers' winnings for things like promotion to make their business appear more trustworthy to other gamblers. The casino might consider hiding the real identity of the winner, but maybe not about the amount of money won.

The OP is probably talking about physical casinos whose winners are recognized by that casino company, but if it's about online casinos then I don't think the problem would be the same. But the responsibility of the casino is to protect the data of its customers from risky publications, but not because they don't want their family to know.

[OgNasty]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

The loss of user information to hackers has become a pretty standard practice around the world.  I've never heard of a case where users receive anything worthwhile back as a result.  Sure, you might get a few months of credit monitoring or something, but basically you get screwed if your identity information is stolen.  This isn't just on gambling houses either.  Look at the people who used FTX for example...  It's likely all their balances and information will be public record at some point as a result of the bankruptcy.  How crypto is supposed to change this is to allow people to gamble without giving up their financial information or identify.

[Oilacris]

Ideally, gambling houses should not disclose the identity of the person who won big without first asking him. Unfortunately, this is not respected always.

Those gamblers who do not want their information to be public, but the gambling houses make their names public, can go to the court of law as this is a serious offense. Gamblers can claim damages to the gambling site on this basis. Do you think gamblers should take the help of courts in this case ?

The loss of user information to hackers has become a pretty standard practice around the world.  I've never heard of a case where users receive anything worthwhile back as a result.  Sure, you might get a few months of credit monitoring or something, but basically you get screwed if your identity information is stolen.  This isn't just on gambling houses either.  Look at the people who used FTX for example...  It's likely all their balances and information will be public record at some point as a result of the bankruptcy.  How crypto is supposed to change this is to allow people to gamble without giving up their financial information or identify.

As long we do touch up centralized or regulated platforms then there's no way on avoiding these things specially on exposing your own identification which is something turns out to be that typical or
in default thats why its up on someones risk taking factor or management whether they could really bare out those things or not.You do really have the choice  but to bare and deal off with the risk
in exchange for the convenience on where these services do offers. As long government could really take involvement then there's no way to avoid this.
Information privacy is never been 100% secured even if they would say that it is safe into their hands.

[danherbias07]

I think gambler companies announce big win to promote their company and to give new customers assurance how reliable they are. This may be doing them good by promoting their company but has some disadvantage for customers. I Normally come across some people on social media news who won big in gambling,  I'm sure it is not the best.

There should be an agreement if the one posting on social media is the business itself.
But if it is the winner who did it then there's no harm in that on the business side.
Did you check who shared it? Could be a promoter, a streamer, or a part of their company advertisement. People now like to share their spoils on social media so we cannot be guessing if it was done on purpose or if the business is trying to do it against the gamblers will. Because if they do, it will be against the privacy of their customer unless it's part of their TOA.

[n0ne]

I'm not sure about the outcome taking such a case to the court and getting justice. It looks like most of the platforms have their terms and conditions mentioned, but we never go through it. We need to be careful with our identity and decide whether we can continue using the platform or not.

In one rare incident gambling house have denied the winning of a gambler, citing the data on the server have lost(A disheartening true life winning story). Further the house have bargained with the winner with lesser amount and the person have reached the court. We don't know whether he got the proper judgement. When it comes to gambling we're risking and we can't get help from anywhere else other than the gambling house itself.