The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, an industry trade group, based in Washington D.C., is pushing for age-verification technologies as a savvy way to regulate online gambling. The group supports U.S. Rep. Barney Frank's (D-Mass.) Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (IGREA).
Frank and his allies note that legalized gambling is "easier to control" than unregulated gambling and therefore is a better route for "protecting Americans from underage gambling."
Clear Evidence
"There is clear evidence that steps taken by regulated Internet gambling operators to ensure the age and identification of every online gambler has gone a long way to minimize the threat of underage gambling in the U.K.," Andrew Poole, managing director for GamCare Trade Services.
The trade group said that age verification through third-party systems like those run by the Social Security Administration databases could prevent "underage gambling" when paired with questions about credit history and physical copies of identification documents.
"The structure of the Internet provides a unique opportunity to put in place protections that are not necessarily available in traditional gambling environments," Poole added.
A user's identity can be compared, rather quickly, to multiple databases and verified for accuracy, said Michael Colopy, senior vice president of the online identity and age verification services, Aristotle Inc. Technologies and databases are becoming more effective, for this purpose, every year.
"Online transactions have become, in many instances, faster and less risky than the visual driver's licenses scan that suffices for alcohol or cigarette purchases in America's neighborhoods," Colopy said.
According to experts on gambling addiction and recovery, a mere 3% of the adult population develops a problem with gambling that will cause significant life issues. According to Henry Lesieur and Durand Jacobs, both Ph.D. researchers who studied the issue, troubled adolescents are more likely as adults to become problem gamblers, so the technology could prevent the problems that American policy makers, including U.S. President George Bush, have fretted about publicly.
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Online Gambling Backers Push for 'Age Verification' Software
By Gene Koprowski
Internet gambling backers said that developments in "age verification" software -- now extensively deployed by cyber-casinos in Europe -- make it safe to repeal anti-Internet gaming legislation in the U.S.
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