B.C. Lottery Corp. misses mandatory review on some web, casino games

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The British Columbia Lottery Corp. launched some Internet games and casino projects without performing a mandatory review that included assessing a game’s impact on problem gambling, an internal audit shows. The failure to do a social-responsibility review was highlighted as a problem that “should be addressed and resolved immediately,” the corporation’s internal audit branch said last March in a report. It was released to The Canadian Press under the province’s freedom of information law. Since 2009, the lottery corporation has required new projects to undergo an internal “corporate social responsibility assessment,” or CSRA. It performs about 2,000 of the assessments a year to weed out imagery that appeals to minors, as well as “messaging that excessively glamorizes gambling, or presents it as an alternative to employment.”

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STANLEY TROMP – CANADIAN PRESS – OCTOBER 4, 2016.

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