PokerStars Vows To Protect Online Poker Players Information

Players have been complaining to some of the sites they play online poker with, claiming that their information is being shared without their consent. Those complaints have triggered action by one of the World's biggest online poker sites.

PokerStars is leading the charge by listening to their player complaints and is now making access to personal information much harder to attain, even requiring that the individual players grant permission for their info to be shared.

The threat to people's privacy is at the fore front of the move, which PokerStars claims will make playing at their site much safer then it has been in the past.

Steven Winters, who heads PokerStars game security had this to say, "Over the past few years we have been collecting feedback from our players via e-mail and public forums on the subject of game play data privacy. The view of a large number of our players is that they do not wish their ROI and profitability to be displayed in a public or subscription based website."

The new rules that were put in place by PokerStars include a necessity of a players express permission for any profitability data.

Any site that do not adhere to the rules set forth by PokerStars, effective immediately, will take the risk of having their access to the card site restricted, which will in turn destroy their business.

Winters went on to say, "PokerStars management respects the privacy of its players and feels strongly that this data should only be available for players who have explicitly expressed a wish for it to be displayed. If a player wishes to allow his full data set to be displayed, he has to opt into that particular service."

The move by PokerStars will almost certainly cause a chain reaction by all of the major online poker game providers, which will hinder many of these information websites.

September 23, 2007
Posted By Vincent Tapoglia III
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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