{"id":777038167,"date":"2026-02-18T12:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777038167"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:17:28","slug":"uae-advances-age-gating-and-gambling-style-digital-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/uae-advances-age-gating-and-gambling-style-digital-content","title":{"rendered":"UAE to introduce stricter measures to prevent minors accessing digital content with gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities in the UAE are preparing phased online child protection measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

United Arab Emirates.- New online child protection measures in the UAE will cover a range of digital services, including gaming and gambling-related content<\/strong>. The policy direction was discussed during a meeting of the Education, Human Development and Community Development Council, where officials identified online child protection as a national priority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They discussed a phased regulatory approach beginning with high-impact platforms and later extending to other digital platforms. The framework will build on Federal Decree-Law No. 26 of 2025 on Child Digital Safety, which prohibits digital platforms from allowing minors to access, create accounts for, or participate in online games with gambling elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities said there will be clearer obligations for service providers<\/strong>, including age-gating systems, monitoring tools and enforcement mechanisms designed to prevent underage access to restricted digital content.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Turkish state banks aim to make things more difficult for gamblers<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities in the UAE are preparing phased online child protection measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":777028000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The UAE is implementing phased online child protection measures, designating it a national priority. This regulatory framework, building on Federal Decree-Law No. 26 of 2025, will impose stricter obligations on digital service providers, including those in gaming and gambling, to prevent minors from accessing or participating in content with gambling elements through age-gating and monitoring tools.","focusai_entities":"Education, Human Development and Community Development Council","focusai_location":"UAE, United Arab Emirates","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.8), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on B2B Suppliers?","query":"How will the phased regulatory approach and specific obligations for service providers impact B2B platform and content suppliers operating or seeking to enter the UAE's digital gaming market?"},{"label":"Compliance Framework Details?","query":"What specific technical and operational compliance frameworks will be mandated for age-gating and monitoring tools under Federal Decree-Law No. 26 of 2025, and what are the enforcement mechanisms for non-compliance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16334],"tags":[4138,337,25015],"class_list":["post-777038167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-online-gambling","tag-regulation","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777038167","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777038167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777038167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777038173,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777038167\/revisions\/777038173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777028000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777038167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777038167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777038167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}