Zona de Azar Italy – Google Faces Investigation Over Gambling Offers and Ads in Italy

Italy.- 6th September 2020 www.zonadeazar.com Google Inc., Google Ireland Limited and Google Italy are facing investigations by Italian authorities over displaying of gambling ads on top of their page.

Italy had imposed a complete ban on all forms of gambling ads by passing Dignity Decree in 2018. Article 9 of the Decree bans ads of the foreign gambling operators that appear in Google results.

At present, Google is being investigated to ascertain whether the scope of the Article 9 of Dignity Decree would cover search results of Google that place ads for foreign gambling operators at the top of the results page.

Edited by: @MaiaDigital www.zonadeazar.com