ICO releases Regulatory Sandbox report on cross-operator data-sharing

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published its first report outlining the public body’s key findings on the feasibility of data-sharing among gaming companies

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published its 1st news report outlining the public body’s Florida key findings on the feasibility of data-sharing among gaming companies.

A ‘Single-Customer View’ (SCV) was the challenge levied by the Commission inward Feb 2020 as it looks to nurture a to a greater extent collaborative, cross-operator perspective of customers’ behaviour to encourage safer gambling.

This story at present follows on from the watchdog’s admittance to the ICO’s data-sharing service, the ‘Regulatory Sandbox’, inward Nov 2020, and its confirming conclusions signify the Commission’s plans canful continue.

“We welcomed the early consignment we received from gambling companies and their trade in organic structure to acquire and test a solution. However, we also recognised the questions that existed on how this could be achieved inwards a way that complied with information shelter law,” said Tim Miller, Executive Director of the Gambling Commission.

“That is wherefore we partnered with the Information Commissioner at an ahead of time stage and are proud of(p) that they have been able-bodied to bring home the bacon assurances that requirements on information tribute want not follow a roadblock to making progress.”

The written document is a rich diving into the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with two briny targets; give a effectual groundwork for the sharing of behavioural information and to deal the processing of special category personal data, substance those individuals flagged as ‘at-risk’.

In contrast with these goals, the report, compiled by the ICO, found that II conditions must follow met before operators could freely deal customer information among themselves.

‘Public task’ requires there to live a fundament in law, for the gambling operators to deal the information for the SCV, and for that sharing to live carried come out inwards the public interest.

‘Legitimate Interests’ encompasses the interests of a identification number of parties including those individuals at put on the line of problem gambling, the interests of play operators inward encounter their effectual requirements and those of bon ton at large.

The publication of this news report was an important stone's throw inwards the rightfulness instruction for the Gambling Commission’s SCV plans, with the watchdog inviting manufacture players to tribulation solutions based on its findings.

Miller concluded: “We now appear forwards to the industry rapidly starting to pilot and and then evaluate the go up they feature highly-developed to encounter the dispute we have place of achieving a Single Customer View.”