[NEWS]Brazil Wants Stricter Age Verification for Minors in Online Gambling.

[acroman08]

Brazil is discussing stricter age verification for minors to protect them from online gambling. From what I understand from the article, Barzil basically wants stricter kyc(maybe when registering an account, and it's an age focused kyc) to make sure no minors will be able to fully access the casino. Before this, Brazil had also increased the tax for gambling operators in the country from 12% to 15% by 2028.

Also, a bit more info about the stricter age verification they want to implement, online gambling is not their only target, they also want stricter age verification on websites that offer pornography, escort services, alcohol, dating apps, and weapons

https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/brazil-discusses-stricter-age-verification-to-shield-minors-from-online-gambling/
https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/brazils-president-approves-law-to-increase-taxes-on-gambling-operators/

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Brazil is discussing stricter age verification for minors to protect them from online gambling. From what I understand from the article, Barzil basically wants stricter kyc(maybe when registering an account, and it's an age focused kyc) to make sure no minors will be able to fully access the casino. Before this, Brazil had also increased the tax for gambling operators in the country from 12% to 15% by 2028.

Also, a bit more info about the stricter age verification they want to implement, online gambling is not their only target, they also want stricter age verification on websites that offer pornography, escort services, alcohol, dating apps, and weapons

https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/brazil-discusses-stricter-age-verification-to-shield-minors-from-online-gambling/
https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/brazils-president-approves-law-to-increase-taxes-on-gambling-operators/

According to the links:

The draft decree would prohibit platforms from relying solely on self-reported ages and outline plans for the government to create its own age-verification system that websites could use.

It also introduces protections for data collected during the age-verification process, aiming to address privacy concerns raised by critics of the law. Under the draft, platforms would be barred from tracking users’ identities, browsing histories, or records related to age-verification requests and checks.

It should be cleared on how the government and the platform is going to work this one. I'm also one of those who are concern on not only the identity of the minors, but all gamblers as well.

What if this self-reported programs might be hacked or their is a slipped on handling the data and it went online? The identify of everyone who gambles are going to be exploited if the data goes to the wrong hand?

[YOSHIE]

Brazil is discussing stricter age verification for minors to protect them from online gambling.

The kyc process, maybe we all know almost all online casinos do the same thing, kyc manipulation in general I know is very easy.
Example:
Someone can do KYC with someone else's identity, they will pay the appropriate price to those who are adults, I have seen that myself, but not at the casinos here.

In short, I want to see how the rules and systems will be implemented by the Brazilian government in cases where minors are restricted from gambling.
If the system and rules implemented by the Brazilian government are the same as they are now, manipulation of the KYC process will happen again, especially now that the economy is difficult, money will solve the problem, I wonder how Brazil will continue to overcome the situation of minors involved in gambling.

[_act_]

Children must be protected. I like the one about the social media that many people are seeing concerning recently. I think it starts from Australia that banned children under 16 years from social media.

Many countries are trying to follow this which is good. France and Denmark had approved to ban it also for under 15 children. Malaysia also approved ban for under 16.

I think many countries like India, Spain, Greece, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Italy and many others are planning to do something like that.

About gambling, children are supposed not to visit gambling sites, high verification level is advised. But I think children are not the problem, almost all if not all gambling addicts are adults.

[Mindyspace]

From what I've seen, the idea of strengthening age verification makes sense to protect minors, because today it's very easy to lie about your age and gamble. Stricter KYC (Know Your Customer) could help with this, but it also raises concerns about privacy and data leaks.

Increased taxes might raise more revenue for the government, but it will likely worsen odds and promotions for players. And expanding age verification to pornography, alcohol, dating, and weapons could be seen as protection or as excessive internet control.

In this case, the challenge is to balance the protection of minors with the privacy of adults; otherwise, the illegal market could grow and unfortunately worsen the situation.

[Alpha Marine]

If the system and rules implemented by the Brazilian government are the same as they are now, manipulation of the KYC process will happen again, especially now that the economy is difficult, money will solve the problem, I wonder how Brazil will continue to overcome the situation of minors involved in gambling.

I guess the government will put more pressure on the gambling companies and impose stricter penalties if they find out that minors are using their sites. This will make the companies impose stricter rules and verifications for gambling. They can include stuff like video evidence added to the usual KYC requirements.
I would like it if the government could find a way to minimise the rate at which minors gamble, but whichever way they want to do it, it will only mean stricter KYC for everybody, because the only way they can verify a person is qualified to gamble is by actually verifying the person.
And I'm guessing they would ban all non KYC casino from operating in the country.

The same can be said about other sites, like porn sites, they hope to regulate. You dont need an account to access most of these sites, so they need to make sure the sites dont work in the contry before they can enforce what they propose.

[Dunamisx]

This is the casino's fault for allowing the underage to have access to gambling and use their platform, is this not for the reason why they always require users to supply their kyc, so that they can make the necessary verification for users before accepting them into their platform for use, but today, reverse is the case because there is no measures being effective and well stationed to cub the incidence of allowing children to gamble.

[asriloni]

In addition, any company that fail to comply with that law will face fines up to 10% of their whole income in brazil. So it can be considered as a very big penalty for the company who unable to implement it.

That's gonna push the various company in brazil to enforce verification to their users. I personally saw it as a positive thing. It's caused by smartphone is a mainstream thing these days. So minors can access everything that is not dedicated for them. It's the reason i personally agree with this kind of rules.

It's no more about the privacy, it's about how to protect the next generation. However, it's very sad many people accused this rule just a scapegoat created by the regulators to gated their citizens.

[Mhizlove]

From what I've seen, the idea of strengthening age verification makes sense to protect minors, because today it's very easy to lie about your age and gamble. Stricter KYC (Know Your Customer) could help with this, but it also raises concerns about privacy and data leaks.

Increased taxes might raise more revenue for the government, but it will likely worsen odds and promotions for players. And expanding age verification to pornography, alcohol, dating, and weapons could be seen as protection or as excessive internet control.

In this case, the challenge is to balance the protection of minors with the privacy of adults; otherwise, the illegal market could grow and unfortunately worsen the situation.

I get what you're staying, youre kind of looking the coin at both sides and I will say yes it's important to protect the young ones or people while doing this at same time that don't mean that adults should lose their privacy and again when the rules are up tight it will make people to go look for platforms that are not safe

The issue here isn't about adding control rather it's how to use or do it wisely with sense, we shouldn't turn the internet to something else or a place that feels restricted too much rather we should protect the young people so that it will balance because it more important or it's the real thing to do

[Odusko]

Brazilian government is taking the best step towards minors protection from harmful online content online platforms like gambling sites and dating apps are becoming very popular globally. Steps towards more regulations that goes beyond just self pronounced age, to more verified sources like using national identity database should be taken, in my personal opinion this will work if only gambling sites' starts verifying government IDs' this may affect their revenue of the casino but for the sake of protection of minors this approach should be adopted. Recently, the government in my country, Nigeria, took some regulatory moves in the direction to minimise underage gambling, and now, each player must verify sometimes using their NIN.

[Coyster]

This is a good initiative and it would be interesting to see how the governments age-verification system they want to create would work, since they have made it clear that just reporting your age would no longer suffice. Minors can easily bypass age restrictions when they only have to report their age themselves.

That said, this would mean Brazilians would have to submit some kind of KYC document before gambling, that's the only way you could be sure of an individuals age and if they are a minor or not.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Age verifications are not only happening in online gambling. It's gonna be implemented in all of platforms dedicated for 18+++. Even efootball already applied it. It's to ensure they can reduce minors from being addicted. We know how many kid can be addicted, and they lose their future due to this.
So it was an action to preventing it to go even worse. I see there's nothing wrong with their decision.

However, there is also a problem related to the privacy consent about how safe the data? We know how many times gov database can be breached due to the incompetency of their security. But since it is not avoidable, i think it puts great wall of china for minors to access 18++ (include online casino).
That's also the reason there is a surge in the seach of site that doesn't force them to verify their identity.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

Brazil is discussing stricter age verification for minors to protect them from online gambling. From what I understand from the article, Barzil basically wants stricter kyc(maybe when registering an account, and it's an age focused kyc) to make sure no minors will be able to fully access the casino. Before this, Brazil had also increased the tax for gambling operators in the country from 12% to 15% by 2028.

Also, a bit more info about the stricter age verification they want to implement, online gambling is not their only target, they also want stricter age verification on websites that offer pornography, escort services, alcohol, dating apps, and weapons

https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/brazil-discusses-stricter-age-verification-to-shield-minors-from-online-gambling/
https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/brazils-president-approves-law-to-increase-taxes-on-gambling-operators/

I have seen age verifications on some pornographic sites, and it is just clicking that you are above 18 and you would be allowed access, every minor who visits such sites would bypass it easily.

Use of documents is already flawed since the minors can obtain the documents of their parents or an older friend to pass such a security check and even for face verification, minors with the correct knowledge of using AI tools can bypass such without much hassle. Security checks are flawed and there is always a way to bypass them.

It would surely help in reducing the number of underage gamblers and others, but it would also make these minors get craftier and look for ways to bypass it and it wouldn't be very long before some of them will succeed.

[Moreno233]

This is a good move to protect the children from the harmful part of gambling that can come through addiction. However this will not com e without some sacrifices such as ensuring complete KYC before gambling. I don't know what will be the fate of online casinos that do not enforce KYC unless they see the need to do that. Maybe they will make KYC compulsory for Brazilians to be able to operate in that country.

[rdluffy]

I live in Brazil, and casinos that want to operate here need to have a license from the Brazilian government and also need KYC

But the government really wants two things:
1 - More money from taxes and licenses
2- More control

There are already rumors of regulating the entire internet and requiring verification, so this is nothing more than a disguised attempt to gain more control
The government here is extremely corrupt and wants to have much more control over citizens than it already does

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

Brazil is discussing stricter age verification for minors to protect them from online gambling. From what I understand from the article, Barzil basically wants stricter kyc(maybe when registering an account, and it's an age focused kyc) to make sure no minors will be able to fully access the casino. Before this, Brazil had also increased the tax for gambling operators in the country from 12% to 15% by 2028.

Also, a bit more info about the stricter age verification they want to implement, online gambling is not their only target, they also want stricter age verification on websites that offer pornography, escort services, alcohol, dating apps, and weapons

https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/brazil-discusses-stricter-age-verification-to-shield-minors-from-online-gambling/
https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/brazils-president-approves-law-to-increase-taxes-on-gambling-operators/

Having stricter rules on KYC verification of online gambling casinos in Brazil,  as an avenue to prevent minors from having access to online gambling is actually a welcome development, and I'm 100% in support of this move, but inasmuch as they follow the right approach about this by ensuring government agencies who are in charge of registering National Identity cards don't forged documents and ensuring teenagers are registered with their exact dates of births. Because one thing I have observed to be a contributing factor why teens below the age of gambling sometimes find it easy to have access to online gambling is when a casino don't have strict rules for KYC, and secondly when is when teens are able to forged the age on documents used for KYC. Hence, the need why a stricter policy will be highly recommendable.

[mcdouglasx]

As long as it's done to protect minors and not to be invasive to the system,that is, not to worsen it by hindering its use for others instead of improving it, it would be fine. But I think governments aren't solely responsible for this; parents should also be involved, since education begins at home.

I also don't see how they could increase KYC to prevent young people from accessing the system. I suppose using some kind of facial scanning for login would be a possible solution, but this wouldn't be well-received.

[OgNasty]

I think every country probably wants stricter control of who is using gambling platforms online. It is a difficult problem because of the nature of the internet an people’s expectation of financial privacy. It will be hard finding a solution that is acceptable for everyone.

[Slow death]

I live in Brazil, and casinos that want to operate here need to have a license from the Brazilian government and also need KYC

But the government really wants two things:
1 - More money from taxes and licenses
2- More control

There are already rumors of regulating the entire internet and requiring verification, so this is nothing more than a disguised attempt to gain more control
The government here is extremely corrupt and wants to have much more control over citizens than it already does

After that case where one of the Supreme Court justices (I won't mention his name because he has serious issues with social media and paranoia about fake news) shut down Twitter and imposed fines until Twitter had a representative in Brazil, it became very clear that the real objective is to control everything on the internet.

So I'm not surprised by this measure. Strangely, they don't put severe measures in place in the favelas so that we don't see minors getting weapons, or constantly see shootings in the favelas.

[Joy_learns_crypto]

Brazil is doing a good thing trying to protect minors from gambling, protecting minors is a big part of the government and Brazil is doing good but also Brazil is ravaged with crimes and violence and why the government are making strict laws to protect minors they should also protect minors from street gang, crime, drugs , rapes and child abuse.