The agreement is a cooperative action tool to prevent, detect and remove gambling-related content that is in breach of national legislation. One of the points is the establishment of bilateral communication channels between SPAs and digital platforms so that notifications of the existence of content that violates the legislation and its eventual removal can be made in an organized and faster manner. The agreement also aims to ensure greater effectiveness in the observance of legislation protecting children and adolescents in the digital environment.
The Digital Council of Brazil is a Brazilian association founded in 2019 that brings together eight of the main technology companies in the country, such as Google, Meta, TikTok, Kwai and Amazon.
“This agreement is very important for the fixed-odds betting market in Brazil. When the Prize and Betting Secretariat began its work, it realized that there was such an intertwined connection with the digital world that it concluded that an agreement like this would be necessary,” said the Prize and Betting Secretary, Regis Dudena.
“This is an unprecedented moment. For the first time, the ecosystem of application providers presents itself in a coordinated way, as a collective, represented by the Digital Council of Brazil,” said Felipe França, Executive Director of the Digital Council.
The construction of the agreement required the involvement of all sectors of the SPA, to face one of its main challenges in achieving the protection of bettors and the popular economy: the fight against illegal betting sites, as well as the advertising they carry out.
“The agreement with the Prizes and Betting Secretariat arises from the understanding that regulating the fixed-odds betting modality, especially in the digital environment, requires not only standards, but also technical cooperation, institutional articulation and permanent channels of dialogue,” said França.
Source: GMB
