For the first time, Facebook’s social network, a game allowed in which users with real money gambling. The gambling game is Bingo Friendzy is only available to play by Facebook users in the United Kingdom.
Facebooks decision to create a gambling game in the own network would have been motivated by a mature and well-regulated gambling market’. “Gambling with real money is popular and well regulated in the United Kingdom, and we are a partner to his game to offer to adult Facebook users,” a spokesman of Facebook at TechCrunch.
The game is developed by the British company Gamesys, owner of different gambling sites. In order to play the game the user must be resident in the United Kingdom and 18 years of age or older. To prove this, users need to verify their identity. Facebook would do this, an “age-rating” -use technology, but how this works exactly, is not known.
According to the BBC, has Gamesys measures built-in to gambling addiction prevention. So the users would have access to ‘zelfhulptools’ and they would have a limit set on what to do with the game can spend.
Or online gambling within Facebook will spread to other countries, is still unclear. In the uk is regulated online gambling is allowed, but in for example the Netherlands the rules for onlinegoksites much stricter. So ruled the supreme court in February that the Netherlands foreign gambling sites should continue to block.
