Abstract
This chapter examines the shifting significance of data ownership and athlete rights as they pertain to the growth and expansion of the global sports gambling industry. It provides a nuanced overview of the ‘dataification’ of society, tracing how the omnipresent embrace of digital technologies has expediated new forms of organisational, political and corporate surveillance from which concerns over privacy, rights to ownership and the misuse of personal data arise. It then examines how the extraction and trade of data has revolutionised how elite sport is performed, manufactured, broadcast and consumed, shedding critical light on the role of the gambling industry in the exchange of human data as a market commodity. These insights inform a series of socio-legal and ethical questions about the relationships between athlete data and the sports gambling industry for the purpose of signposting emerging issues and opportunities for critical sociological research and intervention.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Gambling and Sport in a Global Age |
| Editors | Darragh McGee, Dunn Christopher |
| Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. |
| Publication status | Published - 17 Nov 2023 |
Keywords
- Gambling
- Sport
- Data
- Technology
- Rights