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Brazil's SPA introduces API to identify betting-restricted players

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Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting issued Instruction No. 24 introducing the API de Impedidos to identify people legally barred from betting, including Bolsa Família beneficiaries. The API is intended to support real-time checks within operators’ onboarding and compliance processes; Cactus Gaming legal manager Hugo Ribeiro said implementation should follow data-protection principles, while technical specifications remain to be defined by the SPA.

Operators will need to incorporate eligibility checks into onboarding while observing the API’s legal and data-protection limits.

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Brazilian court grants three betting operators interim relief over authorisations

A TRF3 appeals judge granted interim relief on 3 November to Casa de Apostas, BetSul and Jogo Online over the cancellation of their betting authorisations. The ruling applies only to those three operators; the judge described the cancellation as confiscatory, while the wider dispute over Provisional Measure 1.394/2026 remains before the courts.

TRF3 appeals judge Adriana Pileggi granted interim relief on 3 November to Casa de Apostas, BetSul and Jogo Online over the cancellation of their betting authorisations. The order does not cover other betting operators.

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