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7 long-term trends towards less channelisation in Sweden might well have been accelerated by the recent moves . A knee-jerk political reaction to the pandemic is therefore likely to be much more long-lasting on the health of the regulated sector .
CRITICISM FROM MANY CORNERS
The most damning verdict on the measures as introduced by the government came from the regulator , the Swedish Gambling Authority ( SGA , or Spelinspektionen ), which said the measures would be unenforceable .
An obvious issue was that of players with multiple accounts , who will have the ability to circumvent restrictions imposed on any single account . While the Swedish Equality Commission proposed a staterun central portal through which all account information could be correlated , the idea was dismissed by the SGA on the grounds that this would represent a huge escalation of government monitoring that many might find uncomfortable .
Moreover , it pointed out that such a move might contravene both Swedish and European data protection laws and that any central database would be a public document and therefore all information would potentially be obtainable through freedom of information requests .
November 2020