Ontario takes aim at ticket bots
Sophie Kiwala, MPP for Kingston and the Islands, is hoping to banish "scalper-bots" from the Canadian province with a new bill
News By IQ | 3 October 2016
Mirroring similar developments south of the border, a Canadian politician is taking aim at ticket bots with a new private member’s bill aiming to criminalise their use.
If passed, the Ticket Speculation Amendment Act (Purchase and Sale Requirements) 2016 bill – introduced by Sophie Kiwala, a Liberal member of the provincial parliament (MPP) of Ontario – will prohibit the use of software (dubbed “scalper-bots” by Kiwala) to bypass security measures on online ticket outlets in Canada’s most populous province.
It will…
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