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

[Pandorak]

It's a smart move towards reducing underaged gambling, I believe that with such laws in place the effects of gambling especially among under aged people will drastically reduced but they also have to lookout for other measures that could ensure that this laws aren't bypassed through other means, for example, when registering an online account, there should be a place for aged verification and personal information or data that could help to verify the age of any individuals seeking to open an account for gambling.

I also believe this approach is a good step toward minimizing underage gambling. However, implementing it won’t be as easy as one might imagine, since there’s still a possibility that minors could use their parents or other family members identities to create accounts. Therefore, in addition to enforcing the rules, stricter oversight is needed to ensure that this policy is truly implemented effectively.

[ArabBTC]

I love countries that put the welfare of their citizens first before anything, yes the more people both young and old patronize gambling is the more revenue that will be generated by the government from casinos but their should be restrictions on minors to regulate the system, minors are not mentally matured to take certain decisions on their own especially gambling decision they have to be mentally matured to accept either a lose or win, and have to also be controlled so that they don’t just do things out of childhood influence. Kudos to Brazil for bringing about policies that will help check mate minors and keep them on track, with such actions i can comfortably say that Brazil is one country that loves her citizens.

[Nwada001]

Well it's a welcome development to help reduce underage or Minor gambling, but the problem about this Minors is that they are Very smart, what if they use another person to verify their KYC, how Will the casino know that they have bypass the KYC? Because I think that is what the Minors will do when they know they can't verify their KYC with their own identity.

These kids of the next generation are smart on the next level; before you think of a way to restrict them from things, they appear to be ahead of the game. Aside from even passing KYC using another person’s identity, they can also be playing using others' profiles or use unregulated casinos so that they don’t get detected, and we also have both real and fake sellers online selling verified casino accounts, which could also get to the hand of this minors.

[DrBeer]

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I strongly believe that the solution to this problem must be multifaceted. If parents don’t fully understand what they’re doing and don’t care about their child’s future, then there must be other ways to restrict the child’s access to gambling. Didn’t the government somehow resolve the issue of banning the sale of tobacco and alcohol to minors? It did! And it needs to resolve this issue as well, because it will create problems down the road. After all, what are we paying taxes for, and to what end?

Regarding the situation in Brazil, the government is highly opportunistic and corrupt, and it has a strong appetite for power

They are using child protection as a pretext to establish massive surveillance across the entire internet, casting the widest net possible, along with platform bans, blocks, and etc
To the layperson, it looks like the government is acting in the public interest, but in reality, it is building a system of extensive control over everything we use online

In the near future, if the government doesn't like what you're saying about it online, it will be very easy to cut you off from everything and show up at your door demanding explanations 

It’s hard for me to confirm or deny this-I don’t live in Brazil, so maybe it’s true. But corruption is a huge problem in today’s world… It’s like a cancerous tumor that’s slowly killing the country, the economy, people’s way of thinking, and their faith in the law and justice. It’s probably one of the most terrifying "diseases" of our time, affecting entire nations. And yes, many actions are often disguised as "good deeds".

[jeremypwr]

I think it's a good measure to have stricter age verification for minors to protect them from online gambling.
It can reduce the risk of young people developing gambling habits before they are old enough to understand the risks involved.

[TopTort777]

What about offline gambling? What about having an older brother or friend who is ready to pass age verification for you? Or people who will do that for small payment. Stricker age verification will affect only group of gamblers, who isnt smart enough to bypass it. With time those gamblers will find a way to gamble anyway. Imho only total control, setting filter on information and friend are useful methods if someone wants to save kids from gambling. Otherwise all methods might work only when those kids are at home. As soon as they step over home porch, all restrictions have no use.

[junder]

I strongly believe that the solution to this problem must be multifaceted. If parents don’t fully understand what they’re doing and don’t care about their child’s future, then there must be other ways to restrict the child’s access to gambling. Didn’t the government somehow resolve the issue of banning the sale of tobacco and alcohol to minors? It did! And it needs to resolve this issue as well, because it will create problems down the road. After all, what are we paying taxes for, and to what end?

Perhaps precisely is to limit the child himself with the use of gadgets and the internet, but the problem is like hala that can not be done because for now children in general already understand or maahir with the name gadget or internet even those who are still underage though.
In addition, the government must also take appropriate steps such as age restrictions to access gambling if the country does legalize gambling.

[Furious 7]

What must be understood is that gambling is an activity that can make people addicted to playing it, therefore this must be tightened or set a solution to prevent addiction from happening, although this depends on the awareness of each individual himself. Tightening verification of the age of minors must be supported because even if the country legalizes gambling, it does not mean that it is suitable for minors to participate because gambling is not suitable for all people.

apart from that, this also depends on each other's awareness. Now parents who should educate their children well it has become a duty of parents to their children so that children can distinguish which good things to do and which bad things to avoid. Even though this child will later have his own association but with a good upbringing can make the child not approach halaa which can be bad for him. I support stricter age verification programs for minors in Online gambling.

[Orpichukwu]

I think it's a good measure to have stricter age verification for minors to protect them from online gambling.
It can reduce the risk of young people developing gambling habits before they are old enough to understand the risks involved.

The approach can reduce the risk, but it still won't stop it entirely. While the government is doing what they can, parents should also try to educate the minors on the danger and fill them with enough information so that what they might hear and read outside about gambling will not easily convince them to try it out behind closed doors.

[red4slash]

I also believe this approach is a good step toward minimizing underage gambling. However, implementing it won’t be as easy as one might imagine, since there’s still a possibility that minors could use their parents or other family members identities to create accounts. Therefore, in addition to enforcing the rules, stricter oversight is needed to ensure that this policy is truly implemented effectively.

This will always be a problem because when someone starts gambling it is not impossible for them to outsmart KYC by using an adult identity in order to make it easier for them to gamble.

I have even seen this in my country even though gambling is illegal but when there is KYC then minors who gamble verify even by buying the identity of an adult so that they can gamble.

But this could be another concern later as evaluation material only now for the implementation of the Brazilian regulation it is quite good when trying to limit the age to gamble even in other respects as the OP conveys.  I am a gambler but to be honest I am still annoyed with minors who do the same despite using their money to bet but still there is a great sense of responsibility for me to try to ban it because I feel it is not the time for them.

[alastantiger]

In most cases, 18 is already in the right and legal age and so if that's the age of the people who sees gambling through the other gamblers. They need to be stricter around that age limit. Because anyone can gamble these days and with no kyc, they can easily go to different casinos without having to do any verification for being small time gamblers.

I support Brazil decision for increasing the strictness on minors being allowed to gamble, we have allowed many minors to become victims of gambling and since they are not adult yet, they are unable to be able to control their emotions and that is resulting to why we are having more violence around our communities. Young adult are looking for money hence they are trying out anything that can make money come to them easily because things are getting more expensive but that does not mean they have to turn to gambling as it is destroying them instead of building them up to become better adults. Putting more restrictions is going to reduce the high rate of underage gambling so I also support this move.

[passwordnow]

The approach can reduce the risk, but it still won't stop it entirely. While the government is doing what they can, parents should also try to educate the minors on the danger and fill them with enough information so that what they might hear and read outside about gambling will not easily convince them to try it out behind closed doors.

It might not stop wholly but they can reduce it because it can give the minors a headache on how they're going to verify themselves when they're not at the legal age as per the law. The government can do this continually so that minors who think that they can bypass the kyc will still have that harder time for them to comply. The parents will go crazy if they're asked to verify the accounts of their minor children. And by that, they're the ones to discipline their children that they shouldn't gamble when they are young and have no own source of income and it's what the law says when they're still minors.

[ejikeme24]

These kids of the next generation are smart on the next level; before you think of a way to restrict them from things, they appear to be ahead of the game. Aside from even passing KYC using another person’s identity, they can also be playing using others' profiles or use unregulated casinos so that they don’t get detected, and we also have both real and fake sellers online selling verified casino accounts, which could also get to the hand of this minors.

Of course, nowadays once a kid said this is what I want even though you stop them from doing it today maybe they might pretend like they have let go until the parents mind is out from that stuff and that's when the kid would go back to doing it. In most cases they wouldn't wait until Thier parents forget about it they will look for a way to return back to the game in les than no time. that is why it is becoming hard to stop minors from gambling especially now that they are exposed to online gambling, some children can decide to use Thier parents KYC to verify Thier casino account.

[acroman08]

I think it's a good measure to have stricter age verification for minors to protect them from online gambling.
It can reduce the risk of young people developing gambling habits before they are old enough to understand the risks involved.

Yeah, it's a good initiative from the government to try and lessen the risk of kids being exposed and having easy access to online gambling. I just hope they execute this properly.

What about offline gambling? What about having an older brother or friend who is ready to pass age verification for you? Or people who will do that for small payment. Stricker age verification will affect only group of gamblers, who isnt smart enough to bypass it. With time those gamblers will find a way to gamble anyway. Imho only total control, setting filter on information and friend are useful methods if someone wants to save kids from gambling. Otherwise all methods might work only when those kids are at home. As soon as they step over home porch, all restrictions have no use.

I'm not sure how accurate this site is, but it says casinos are prohibited. I am assuming they are talking about land-based, since it also mentioned online casinos, which are listed as regulated. They also mentioned that horse racing as "allowed activities". Maybe @rdluffy could clarify this further, if I remember correctly, he is from Brazil.

[Cantsay]

What about offline gambling? What about having an older brother or friend who is ready to pass age verification for you? Or people who will do that for small payment. Stricker age verification will affect only group of gamblers, who isnt smart enough to bypass it. With time those gamblers will find a way to gamble anyway. Imho only total control, setting filter on information and friend are useful methods if someone wants to save kids from gambling. Otherwise all methods might work only when those kids are at home. As soon as they step over home porch, all restrictions have no use.

As long as it is online, there is no way to be able to filter out underage gamblers totally. The best thing to do is to just have total control of the whole thing, like a centralised database for gamblers and make sure they all request KYC documents.

As for the bypasses, it is definitely going to be there, but at least it won't be as easy as what is currently happening right now. They would have to go through a lot of stress to access gambling platforms as long as they are not of legal age. So being stressful is better than making it very easy to access.

[Odusko]

One thing I have understand with government regulations on the issues of underage gambling is that, the main St back for such policies is the enforcement phase, those laws are only strong on paper than practical enforcement, an th only way to actually eliminate underage people from registering on gambling sites is to make KYC composery and strict adherence to the rules by allowing only verified government documents alone for KYC verification.

[knuckey]

The goal of the Brazilian state is quite good, they protect children as their future successors, but there is something that needs to be paid more attention to, if the KYC request increases then each casino will have a lot of identities, does the Brazilian state take firm steps regarding privacy data if a leak occurs at some point, to prevent it, how does the state or the casino secure privacy data, because there are many cases of identity sales

[mirakal]

The goal of the Brazilian state is quite good, they protect children as their future successors, but there is something that needs to be paid more attention to, if the KYC request increases then each casino will have a lot of identities, does the Brazilian state take firm steps regarding privacy data if a leak occurs at some point, to prevent it, how does the state or the casino secure privacy data, because there are many cases of identity sales

I think it is already given that casinos requiring KYC are also required to safeguard that information with utmost confidentiality.

It would be a violation of the law if they intentionally leak that information, or even if it was not intentional but it is proven that their security measures were weak. So if we are going to submit our documents for KYC, we have to make sure that the casino is regulated by the government, preferably in the country where we are living.

Otherwise, our data and documents are at risk of being exposed sooner or later, especially if we play in an unregulated and non-reputable casino.

[Dogedegen]

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/

This is a very good thing, sometimes legislators make very weak laws about age verification and then companies even are worse with their bad compliance. If we set up systems that can be easily bypassed by minors, then there is no point in these systems at all it is better to not do anything than to pretend to do something. We have seen also social media restrictions for young people appear recently, but until there is good checks to enforce it it does not do much. I think there is so much that we need to fix when it comes to minors, access to gambling websites but also all those gambling elements and procedures like lootboxes. All of that slowly hooks them to gambling and we can find that in many games that minors access, many are sadly addicted to all of that already and fixing it is a life long process. I think I have seen fewer people actually recover from their tech device addictions than those that didn't recover, and that is quite sad..

[mikel_012]

The goal of the Brazilian state is quite good, they protect children as their future successors, but there is something that needs to be paid more attention to, if the KYC request increases then each casino will have a lot of identities, does the Brazilian state take firm steps regarding privacy data if a leak occurs at some point, to prevent it, how does the state or the casino secure privacy data, because there are many cases of identity sales

Definitely no!!

All the information from 200 million civilians are leaked in the internet from system invasions like SUS and Health Ministry

If they ask for more informations in all places it will leak again and again, and all civilians will be more in risk of scams and kidnapping

This law is a very bad idea but it is sad it will continue and get worse with time