The thing is if UKGC have had to bring in new rules etc... it shows their old guidance/approach was seen by the casinos as full of holes/half hearted. I agree the casinos exploited the situation for their own benefit, letting folk lose thousands in a short space of time with no checking and then stalling withdrawals with selfie requests so that the reverse button gets pressed... but still not sure a 100% big brother approach is warranted, that's if that is what happens..so far I haven't had to re register and verify any of my uk based accounts, which suits me fine
As part of investigations, we were able to open 5 accounts on William Hill in 2 days, 4 on 32red, 3 on Casumo, 2 on Betway and numerous others...completely unchecked only by altering a couple of details and depositing. We also used date of birth as the main change on it as it defined a new account but these were never picked up after 72 hours. The industry was crooked on this front and completely exploited problem gamblers and underagers. Without this move it would have kept going. After Gamstop the volume of complaints to the UKGC has skyrocketed so that's where they knew they had to do something.