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The revolution will give gamblers back control – or an illusion of it

Robin Gibson moves to the GDPR to see about your betting data

Mendelssohn and Ryan Moore: hoping to win in America, not the GDPR
Mendelssohn and Ryan Moore: hoping to win in America, not the GDPRCredit: Edward Whitaker

In case you missed it – a phrase Twitter fans will be delighted to read for the 23rd time today – there's a revolution coming.

It's the one that's prompted all those emails about data. It's the GDPR, which sounds like a great place to be an old communist, but is in fact the General Data Protection Regulation (to be implemented on May 25).

This is European legislation, but the Brexiting government has promised to remain signed up to it. Outrageous. We should be taking back control and doing our own, er . . . whatever it is. And what is it?

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