The UK is to host the first international summit on online
gaming this year amid growing ministerial concern about the need to
protect children and the industry's potential for criminal infiltration
by rogue operators. The UK last year became the only
industrialised nation to introduce a regulatory framework for the
online gambling industry with passage of the Gambling Act. However,
with other countries - notably the US - refusing to regulate the
industry, ministers acknowledge the UK is operating in isolation.
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