Gambling Law Updated for ‘Smartphone Age’ but Tory MP Says It Curbs Individual Freedom

Gambling Law Updated for ‘Smartphone Age’ but Tory MP Says It Curbs Individual Freedom
A man poses for a photograph with the logo for online gambling website Bet365 displayed on a smartphone, in London on Dec. 18, 2019. Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images
Chris Summers
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Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has unveiled proposals to reform Britain’s betting laws to “bring the regulations into the smartphone age” and protect those with gambling addictions.

Writing in The Times of London on Thursday, Frazer said gambling apps on mobile phones had brought Las Vegas to people’s homes, but she said they had become “a trapdoor to despair and isolation” for some people.
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Chris Summers is a UK-based journalist covering a wide range of national stories, with a particular interest in crime, policing and the law.
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