Many whom are newbie's to the new U.S. iGaming industry might
say what's PII? PII stands for personal identifiable information, as described
here on Wikipedia.
I've followed the iGmaing industry for many years, most
offshore gambling sites, not all ask for PII through unsecured means such as email,
API's, Chat and other un-vetted ways. This process has now been introduced within the U.S. too. The mission here at Player Verify is to
provide a secure central hub for the sharing of PII between an online gambler
and online gambling Website.
Being that our process takes place at one central location
removes the scattering of your personal identifiable information through
several platforms and moves it to one secure hub for the process to take place.
PlayerVerify.com is a secure, licensed conduit for the process to take place
and has been fully vetting by the Nevada Gaming Commission and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.
You might be scratching your head right now, saying that
iGaming sites are secure. You're correct most of them are but when they allow email requests for your PII, email isn't
a secure form of transmitting personal information and makes more stops on the
Internet than the Las Vegas strip. Email can be breached and read when sent
from one location to another. Another problem with email is typing the wrong
address in your browser and sendind your PII to an unintended party. Also
scammers will purchase domain names close to the gaming sites name and request
your PII which again could be sent to an unintended party by mistake.
There's probably some very secure API's and chat systems
for uploading PII but it's of my opinion these sites and systems should be
vetted and licensed by the regulatory commissions because it only takes one bad
apple within these companies to gain access to your information. I could
currently name at least two systems being used by legal licensed U.S. online
gambling sites that have been hacked and PII stolen in 2013. For good measure I
won't point fingers, name names but it's a fact.
A handful of iGaming sites provide their own upload system
within their software platform which is secure in my opinion but again it's PII
scattering through multiple platforms and servers. Did you know that when you
upload your personal document information to an iGaming Website your data is backed
up on their server for up to 10 years? That's unacceptable since once your
information is approved you should have access to remove your personal
information back off the server.
Once a player's PII documents are approved by the gaming
site on Player Verify, if you want you can completely remove your documents
from our server once approved. But due to our secure one of a kind system you
can also store your PII documents and leave them within your account too, if
you'd like. You retain full contol of your PII when it's online.
For player's to use the PlayerVerify.com system we must get
legal U.S. iGaming sites on board for our system to work securely. To date it's
surprisingly been hard to get any Nevada or New Jersey online gambling sites to
sign up at Player Verify. There seems to be a resistance with legal gambling
sites wanting to get on board despite a central hub like ours being the most
secure way for players to keep control of thier PII online.
If you agree with the above comments we ask players to send
an email to your iGaming site and tell them you'd like to share your PII
requests via PlayerVerify.com.
If you're not comfortable with the way any legal iGaming
site in Nevada or New Jersey are requesting your personal identifiable information
you can file a complaint here.
We must all pull together and stop the scattering of PII across the Internet within the iGaming industry.
