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Online gambling in the UK tightened up
Online gambling companies that advertise in the UK, or take bets from customers in the UK, are facing the prospect of much greater scrutiny and the requirement to obtain a licence of some description from the UK Gambling Commission. This … Continue reading
Online gambling regulation: players two, casinos nil. And about time, too.
Online gambling regulators are not usually much to write home about as far as player protection goes. For the most part, they do little more than lie down and wait for their collective tummies to be tickled by the operators … Continue reading
Mastercard and Visa online gambling crackdown
Credit cards Mastercard and Visa have recently imposed restrictions on online gambling transactions to US customers, in preparation for the implementation of the anti-gambling legislation in June this year. The following was reported by eGaming Review: Mastercard crackdown leaves US … Continue reading
Ladbrokes data scandal: personal information of millions of customers offered for sale to national newspaper
Ladbrokes suffered a mighty embarrassment, earlier this week, and 4,500,000 customers had cause to get nervous, when the Mail On Sunday revealed that the UK uber-bookmaker’s customer database had been offered to them for sale: For sale: Personal details of … Continue reading
Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting, Business, Ethics, Gambling
Tagged bettors, customers, database, gamblers, Gambling, Great Britain, Ladbrokes, Mail On Sunday, privacy, United Kingdom
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Eurolinx: Withdrawal problems and cashflow concerns for this formerly top-ranked Microgaming poker room. How can lightning strike twice in the same place?
In my Microgaming poker article of earlier this year, I described the saga of the collapse Of Tusk Investment Corporation and the subsequent loss of around $5,500,000 in player funds. This was a debacle from which the software provider, Microgaming, … Continue reading
Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting, Ethics, Gambling
Tagged Eurolinx, Microgaming, poker, withdrawal
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Is it right to use children in online gambling promotion?
The Association of Professional Casino Webmasters, or “APCW”, produces a twice-weekly promotional video which reports on news matters relevant to the online gambling industry – see their Perspectives Weekly page on You Tube. Have a look at the July 17th … Continue reading
Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting, Ethics, Gambling, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce
Tagged ads, advertising, Betting, children, Ethics, Gambling, Internet Marketing
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How confidential is your confidential data in the hands of online payment solutions? Is Moneybookers fully in tune with the law?
All we online gambling players, ploppies, punters, squares, sharps and sharks share the common need of moving our money around as quickly and painlessly as possible. With credit cards not always passing muster, online payment solutions Moneybookers and Neteller are … Continue reading
Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting, Ethics, Gambling, Regulations
Tagged Betting, Cherry Red Casino, Click2Pay, data privacy, Data Protection Act, Financial Services Authority, Gambling, Great Britain, Internet betting, Internet casinos, Internet gambling, laws, MoneyBookers, NETeller, online casinos, payment systems, payments, PayPal, privacy, Regulations, United Kingdom, web casinos
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Microgaming poker trouble: $5,300,000 owed to players of failed licensee, and a deafening silence from the oldest software provider in the business
This post is long even by my standards, but please bear with me as it’s significant news on several levels. It is an extension of the Microgaming poker scandal article I wrote for my own site, with some additional material … Continue reading
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Tagged customers, eCOGRA, Gambling, marketing, Microgaming, Microgaming Poker, players, poker
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The Malta LGA and the Alderney AGCC at the London ICE: no answers and nobody available.
This is the rather long-promised followup to my previous articles on the Malta LGA, the ex CEO of the LGA Mario Galea, and also the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. – I attended the 2009 International Casino Exhibition in January this … Continue reading
Mario Galea and the Malta Lotteries And Gaming Authority: the continuing corruption of this puppet online gambling licensing body
This is a follow up to the previous Malta LGA article I wrote for Midas Oracle earlier this year, and a re-working and extension of the Mario Galea and the LGA article on my own site a few weeks ago. … Continue reading