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As government continue to move forward with the regulation and legalization of online casinos, one issue continues to resurface; finding a solution to underage gambling.  No one will contest, whether they support or protest online casinos, that preventing minors from accessing online casinos is a very important matter.

The Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia has taking the issue of minors gambling at online casinos head on.  The Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation commissioned a study in 2006 that examined the frequency of minors at online casinos and Internet gambling sites.  The site revealed that minors were gambling at online casinos three times as much as legal adults.  According to the study 15 percent of 18 year olds were gambling online and 19 percent of minors between the age of 15 and 17 were gambling online.

As a response to the study, the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation attempted to find a solution to the problem by commissioning an American company to finally develop software that would effectively block minors from accessing online casinos and other gambling sites.  According to Marie Mullally the President and CEO of the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation, the commission was successful.

Considered the first of its kind, the BetStopper software will be offered to online casinos and Internet gambling sites free of charge.  A test of the software by 250 families in Nova Scotia yielded very positive results.

“There was nothing out there, so we invented this,” said Mullally.

“It has a heightened or enhanced level of intelligence that allows it to have a 98 percent rate of blocking sites.”

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