Australia is planning face scans in online casinos

All over the world there are more or less meticulous attempts to regulate gambling. A central point here is checking the age. Self-exclusion in the event of risk of gambling addiction is also a topic that land-based casinos and online platforms deal with.

Australia is now thinking about a new way: In online casinos, a face check should be carried out before users log on to a page.

Protection of minors

Gambling is only allowed from the age of majority. However, it seems easy to circumvent this rule, especially online. Face checks should therefore now also be used online in Australia. The software should then recognize the faces and decide whether they are underage players. ID cards and driver's licenses are also important here in order to be able to verify identity.

The authorities are also planning to use this software not only for online casinos. Minors should also not be allowed to visit other websites in this way. Pages with pornographic content, for example, fall under this desired protection of minors, which, similar to online casinos, is difficult to guarantee. It's still very easy to bypass age checks. Sometimes just a click of the mouse is enough to confirm that you are over 18 years old.

Better control if there is a risk of gambling addiction

Not only minors should be protected from gambling, the software should also benefit gamblers: for example, if you have been blocked, your face should be saved. If you then try to log in or register again, the software denies access to the online gambling portal.

This point is also to be welcomed, because cross-casino software would be conceivable here. It would be much more difficult to register in a new online casino after you have already been blocked at another.

Is data protection guaranteed?

Although the idea sounds like a good thing at first glance, critics rightly ask themselves: What about data protection? If third-party software is used, third-party companies receive sensitive player data. It is rightly stated here that the system is not yet sophisticated enough.

With such software, the monitoring of players is taken to a whole new level, which in turn applies to the entire Australian population.

All in all, Australia seems to be heading in the right direction at first. It is especially important online to regulate easy access to gambling. Face checks and proof of identity seem to make sense, but the issue of data protection cannot be dismissed out of hand.

Ultimately, we can hope for a mature system that treats sensitive data confidentially and only saves the information that is necessary for player protection.

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