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The latest updates and news from the Clean Up Gambling campaign.
Clean Up Gambling has called for Britain’s gambling regulator to take enforcement action on gambling companies which misuse personal data to target at-risk gamblers with marketing rather thaninterventions to reduce harm.
Learn →Following consideration of submissions by Clean Up Gambling, the ICO has today confirmed that Sky Betting and Gaming brands breached the data protection regime.
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With the dust having settled following the publication of the government’s long awaited White Paper on gambling reform, it is fair to conclude that the policies announced represent a big step forward.
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Clean Up Gambling has submitted evidence to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) detailing widespread illegality in how data is obtained and used for profiling by online gambling operators.
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CLASS research has discovered an epidemic of online gambling in women with children, created by social isolation and lack of opportunities.
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‘Talking Horses: letter shows fears of £60m hit to racing from bet reforms’ claimed an article in The Guardian last week.
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Clean Up Gambling has commissioned Cracked Labs to carry out a detailed investigation into data flows in the online gambling industry.
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Owen Jones put it well on Jeremy Vine when he said: “We will look back in 10 years’ time and say, ‘I can’t believe we ever allowed gambling advertising’.”
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Read Clean Up Gambling’s response to the government’s call for evidence on loot boxes in video games.
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Read Clean Up Gambling’s response to the European Commission’s New Consumer Agenda.
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During the campaign against FOBTs, bookies argued that a cut in the maximum stake to £2 a spin would lead to a rise in “black market” gambling machine use.
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In September last year, the CEOs and representatives of Britain’s biggest betting firms were asked what they thought of imposing limits to stakes on content, such as slots or casino games online.
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Gambling firms are required to donate a small percentage of their profits to research, prevention and treatment services as a condition of their operating license.
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The All Party Parliamentarty Group (APPG) on Gambling Related Harm, an influential collective of MPs and Peers who were instrumental in the successful campaign to restrict FOBTs, yesterday published recommendations for reforms to online gambling.
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According to the Daily Mail the Gambling Commission is to publish the conclusion of an 18-month long investigation into PT Entertainment Services...
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Thirteen years after the creation of the Gambling Commission, gambling regulation is still failing to protect the consumer.
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In 2011, the government cut the £500k research grant that was used to fund the British Gambling Prevalence Survey (BGPS). Instead, questions on gambling would be inserted into Health Surveys.
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Our outdated gambling laws mean there are currently no regulations on the amount someone can deposit into an online gambling account, nor any legal limits on stakes.
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What was sold to the public, media and politicians by online gambling lobbyists as a voluntary removal of TV and radio ads during lockdown has turned out to be something quite different.
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Against the odds, Clean Up Gambling’s Survation polling on the impact of the lockdown on regular gamblers landed in the industry publication CDC Gaming.
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Coronavirus hasn’t hurt online gambling.
Learn →Gambling is a mess. Our outdated gambling laws, written before smartphones or even wi-fi existed, mention betting by post more often than they do online gambling.
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