According to ZDNet: Reports suggest a government database was misused for age verification purposes.
Betting companies were inappropriately provided access to information sourced from a government database containing the records of 28 million children, reports suggest.
The UK’s Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for the database, which contains the details of minors aged 14 and above at schools — both state and private — as well as colleges across the United Kingdom.
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