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Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation builds software to block children to access to online gambling sites
 May 31, 2009, 8:00 am (2 years ago)According to the Chronicle Herald newspaper in the Nova Scotia province of Canada, latest software effectual in rejecting juvenile gambling has been built by an American company built by the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation.
Marie Mullally, the president and CEO of the NSGC, states that parents are able to get the software for free and install it on computers at home. This is going to give the system which will be able to reject access to gambling sites. Apparently, this software is the first of its kind in the world.
Mullally stated that an examination done by the corporation in 2006 found the underage were gambling online 3 times as frequently as grown-ups. 60% of the young players turned out to be male. In the gaming corporation’s 3 years of investigation, 15 % of 18-year-olds and 19 % of underage from 15 to 17 admitted to online gambling.
Following the investigation, the corporation appointed an American company to build software that has the ability to reject young ones to access to gambling sites.
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