DataCash offers fail-safe to gambling operators?

By Alex Tanner 29-03-2005 02:56 PM Payment services provider DataCash today signed a deal with BT that could help detect underage gambling on the internet. The deal allows DataCash customers to access BT's identity verification service, URU(Trade Mark), otherwise known as URUTM, which works by asking potential users a series of questions. Answers are then cross-referenced with information held on various national databases such as mortality, utility and financial records, and passport and driving licence details. The reference databases do not disclose personal data but instead rank each answer as "match" or "no match". An independent audit trail is also created to show that checks have been made. Subsequentely, DataCash will be able to provide age, identity and fraud screening of credit and debit cards in a single check. The company is hoping that the service will be of particular interest to online gambling operators, who have been looking for a fail-safe system to verify their users are of legal age to gamble.