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SB 1292

Virginia Retirement System; return to work, sunset date.

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Tara Durant

Prohibits remote gambling operators and their subsidiaries from collecting data to predict how a participant will gamble in a given scenario, curbing targeted predictive profiling.

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Bill Summary · SB 1292

SB 1292 — “Gambling Data Collection Act” (Anti‑Click Gambling Data Analytics Collection Act)

Note: multiple jurisdictions use the bill number “SB 1292” for different measures. This summary covers the introduced version titled the “Anti‑Click Gambling Data Analytics Collection Act” (LRB104 09856 SPS 19924 b), which was filed in the 2025 Illinois General Assembly. Other materials with the same bill number (from Florida, Arizona, etc.) relate to different topics and are not summarized here.

Purpose / Intent

To limit the use of behavioral data analytics by operators of remote gambling platforms by prohibiting those operators (and their subsidiaries) from collecting data with the intent of predicting how a participant will gamble in a particular gambling or betting scenario. The bill aims to curb targeted predictive profiling that could be used to steer players or exploit vulnerabilities.

Key provisions

  • Short title: “Anti‑Click Gambling Data Analytics Collection Act.”
  • Definition: “Remote gambling” — gambling in which persons participate by remote communication (e.g., Internet, telephone, television, radio, or other electronic technology).
  • Principal prohibition (Section 10): An entity that operates a remote gambling platform, and subsidiaries of that entity, shall not collect data from a participant with the intent to predict how the participant will gamble in a particular gambling or betting scenario.
  • Effective date: The act takes effect upon becoming law.

Who would be affected

  • Primary: Operators of remote gambling platforms (online casinos, sportsbooks, mobile wagering apps) and their corporate subsidiaries.
  • Secondary: Third‑party analytics vendors, advertising/marketing contractors, and platform users/participants whose behavioral data are collected.
  • Regulators and enforcement bodies (not specified in the text) would be implicated if enforcement mechanisms or penalties are later defined.

Procedural / timeline status (from provided record)

  • Introduced: 01/28/2025 (filed by Sen. Bill Cunningham in the Illinois record provided).
  • Read first time / Referred to Assignments / Referred to Jurisprudence: 02/28/2025 (as listed).
  • Other listed legislative actions show committee referrals and calendaring activity; ultimate outcome in the record provided: “Died on Calendar” / “Indefinitely postponed” (indicating the measure did not advance final passage in that session).

Potential impacts and implementation issues

  • Industry compliance: Platforms would need to review data collection and analytics practices, limit collection/use tied to predictive intent, and possibly redesign models and marketing approaches.
  • Third parties: Analytics vendors and advertisers may need contractual and technical changes to avoid facilitating prohibited predictive use.
  • Consumer protection: Could reduce targeted exploitation of susceptible gamblers and strengthen privacy protections.
  • Legal and enforcement gaps: The draft text focuses on intent to predict behavior but does not specify enforcement mechanisms, civil/criminal penalties, record‑keeping requirements, or exemptions. Ambiguity around what constitutes “intent” and which analytic activities are covered could create compliance uncertainty and litigation risk.
  • Interaction with existing law: Would need to be reconciled with state gambling regulation, data/privacy statutes, and federal laws.

If you want, I can:
- Draft suggested statutory language to clarify enforcement, penalties, and permitted uses (e.g., fraud prevention, safety interventions), or
- Produce a short compliance checklist for operators and vendors.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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