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Brazil finance and justice agencies agree to study betting-platform protections

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Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Bets and National Secretariat of Digital Rights signed Technical Cooperation Agreement No. 28/2026 to address consumer protection in online betting. The agencies plan to study dark patterns and fixed-odds betting, share information and assess responsible advertising, platform transparency and risks linked to problematic gambling use.

The cooperation could inform future guidance and regulatory tools for betting platforms and consumer safeguards.

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Brazil finance ministry drafts betting-platform restrictions, including five-second intervals

Brazil’s federal government has drafted restrictions on online betting platforms, according to people familiar with the discussions. The proposed rules include a five-second pause between bets and bans on autoplay, time-pressure features, preselected stakes, celebratory sounds and prompts discouraging withdrawals; the text awaits final technical review before publication.

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