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Brazil Senate committee schedules online betting hearing without licensed operators

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Brazil’s Senate Human Rights Committee scheduled a public hearing for 2 July on online gambling’s social, economic and public health effects. The committee agenda included household debt, mental health, advertising and market regulation; no licensed betting company or industry organisation was among the invited guests, according to the report.

The hearing may inform debate on betting policy, while its listed participants exclude licensed operators and their associations.

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