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UK launches UIGEA opposition

2007-05-09 16:55:16

Two UK firms have announced the launch of their own campaign seeking to overturn the recent Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and adding to similar recent efforts across the Atlantic.

Payments firm UC Group and Baker Tilly accountants have begun the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative as a means to counter the UIGEA, with UC Group asserting that its own technologies can help with the regulation of online gambling.

The firm asserts that it is able to monitor compulsive and underage gambling via its own software, thereby weakening the argument that a full ban is required in order to effectively police gambling on the internet.

"The Initiative is both to educate parts of the public as well as to garner grassroots support from other companies, organizations and individuals for the [proposed pro-regulation] legislation," commented spokesman Jeff Sandman of Hyde Park Communications.

America's own grassroots initiative, the Poker Players' Alliance, which is campaigning along the same lines as the UK venture, currently has almost 500,000 members.


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