But I still wonder if this kind of technology is effective enough for those minors who use their parent's access accounts to gambling sites. Will this be able to detect such action? Will this kind of technology can trully protect minors and prevent them to access gambling sites?
Usually KYC involves selfie holding the ID so it's impossible to use this trick on stricter law imposed by the government. I doubt that the German government didn't think about this carefully by just requiring ID to verify the account. There might be some extra layer of security besides selfie to make sure minors will be filtered properly.
Definitely there is an extra layer of verification, I think the service provider has to process the authenticity of the submitted documents, optimizing the scans of IDs and photos for more precise identification. This might prevent forgery or identify forgery.
Minors had been flocking to the online Casino site without any restrictions. They can blatantly access gambling sites with their parents' cards, fake their identities and so on.
So the minors are smart enough to fake their online identity? Really? This seems suspicious to me.
Well, there are some smarty pants minors out there who think they can outwit people by faking their identity or age just to bypass certain securities. Blame the internet for that
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So they use their parent's debit/credit cards to gamble? Can't their parents view the transactions on their bank accounts? Can't they reverse unauthorized credit card transactions? If your kid is using your credit card to gamble, you are a lousy parent.
Most credit card holders don't know much about their cards transaction until they are notified, and true, there are lots of lousy irresponsible parents out there.
This new KYC regulation won't solve the problem. The real problem is the unregulated casinos that don't require ID verification. Who is going to stop those casinos from accepting underage gamblers? Another part of the problem is the aggressive advertising of casinos and sportsbooks.
True that, most of the problem regarding minors into gambling is created by these unregulated casinos. That is why the government is busy tracking them down and shut them once they got a grip on it.
Germany's advanced technology is a joke, really. The only thing which is advanced in Germany, and unnecessarily so, is the buerocracy.
The service provider is a US-based specialist hired by the German Commission for the Protection of Minor in the Media (KJM) to enhance their intended services.
Incode Technologies, a US-based specialist in biometric identity, has its age verification solution approved by the German Commission for the Protection of Minor in the Media (KJM).
