Academics team up with Muslim athletes to stop bookmakers’ using performance data

Academics on the UK’s Centre for the Study of Islam are becoming a member of forces with Muslim athletes preventing to stop the sale of performance data to the betting trade.

They have shaped a partnership with former soccer supervisor Russell Slade’s ‘Project Red Card’, aimed toward resolving what’s turning into one of many large points in fashionable sport.

Personal performance data is collected below licence throughout matches and coaching periods however breaks current UK data safety legal guidelines when routinely bought on for revenue with out consent.

The undeniable fact that it often ends up serving to the betting and gaming industries is of larger misery to athletes of strict Islamic religion, a lot of them cricketers, who’re opposed to playing on spiritual grounds.

‘Muslims take their faith significantly,’ stated Dr Mansur Ali from the Centre for the Study of Islam at Cardiff University. 

Muslim sports activities stars like Moeen Ali (left) are to be backed up by lecturers on the UK’s Centre for the Study of Islam in row over sale of performance data to the betting trade. The cricketers’ union is already signed up to the £500million lawsuit in opposition to bookmakers

Russell Slade is main a lawsuit over bookmakers’ use of sports activities stars’ performance data

‘We are usually not within the enterprise of telling folks what to do. 

‘Our challenge will present an evidence-based guideline for Muslim athletes to make an moral and religiously knowledgeable choice about their data and mental property.’

The cricketers’ union, the PCA, and virtually two thousand skilled footballers within the UK are already signed up to help of Project Red Card.