Zunaid Ahmed Palak wants gambling apps to be stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Bangladesh.- State minister for posts, telecommunication and information technology\u00a0Zunaid Ahmed Palak<\/strong> has stated that he wants to eradicate online gambling apps. According to the Daily Sun, Palak warned of the consequences of gambling ads on social media platforms during a visit to the Cyber Threat Detection and Response Centre at the Telecommunication department’s headquarters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He said he had instructed authorities to take action, but it’s not clear what will be done. Bangladesh prohibits all gambling except for horse racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zunaid Ahmed Palak wants gambling apps to be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Bangladesh's State Minister for Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, has announced intentions to eradicate online gambling applications and address related social media advertising. This directive signals a potential regulatory crackdown, reinforcing Bangladesh's existing prohibition on most forms of gambling, with the exception of horse racing.","focusai_entities":"Zunaid Ahmed Palak, Daily Sun, Cyber Threat Detection and Response Centre, Telecommunication department","focusai_location":"Bangladesh","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.9), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Enforcement Mechanisms?","query":"What specific enforcement mechanisms and technological capabilities will the Telecommunication department deploy to block gambling applications and advertising content on social media platforms?"},{"label":"Compliance Timeline & Penalties?","query":"What is the projected timeline for the implementation of these new directives, and what are the stipulated penalties for non-compliance by operators, affiliates, and platform providers?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16334],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777012936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777012936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012949,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012936\/revisions\/777012949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}