Poker machine venues want to be exempt from any legislation which introduces caps for the storage of biometric data.
A lobby group in Australia has sided with venues insisting that tighter controls will be unnecessary as facial verification is reducing the harms of gaming for players.
The standardisation of laws permitting biometrics to be used or stored within a time period before destruction is across the board. This protects the privacy interests of the person handing over their biometric information.
The federal government introduced the national digital identity scheme, which centres around privacy aims and protecting sensitive information.
Venues in Queensland and New South Wales are using the software. The government’s system will ultimately interact with centralised ID systems in each state to balance privacy.
While verification can prevent addicts or underage users using gambling machines, the indefinite collection of biometric data should not be attributed to neutralising harmful effects within the industry.
Online gaming proves attractive to all players so online gaming operators everywhere are conducting customer due diligence processes to identify their customers, known as KYC verification.
Clubs Australia said: “Where a venue uses facial recognition technology to identify excluded patrons, the club must retain sensitive biometric information to assist one-to-many matches”. The national digital identity offering threatens to stop venues conducting one-to-many matches within large databases.
Story covered by The Guardian
