Major League Baseball’s (MLB) move to restrict dugout iPad functionality is a reminder that AI governance is showing up everywhere, including in the middle of professional baseball games. According to reports, MLB disabled custom tablet tabs after concerns that teams were using AI-powered tools to support real-time decisions on substitutions, pitch calling, and other in-game
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MLB to Use Biometrics to Replace Traditional Ticketing
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Data Privacy
Traditional tickets (paper, that is) have already been replaced with mobile tickets for many Major League Baseball (MLB) stadiums across the country, but now, MLB has teamed up with CLEAR, which provides biometric authentication, to implement biometric ticketing at select stadiums. CLEAR will allow baseball fans to use their fingerprints, and eventually facial recognition, to…
Major League Baseball fines Cardinals and Plucks Draft Picks for Hacking the Astros
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
It doesn’t always pay to be a hacker. Major League Baseball (MLB) this week made a strong statement about its tolerance for teams hacking other teams. We previously reported on the incident when a Cardinals employee hacked into the Astros database to lift information about scouting and rankings of eligible draft picks. [view related posts…
Ex-Cardinals scouting director sentenced to serve time in jail for Astros database hacking
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Back in January, we wrote about the ex-Cardinals Scouting Director pleading guilty to hacking the Houston Astros database. Now, this week, Christopher Correa, former scouting director and director of baseball development, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for unlawfully accessing computers and e-mails of the Houston Astros. Correa admitted to accessing a protected computer…
Major League Baseball investigating Cardinals-Astros hacking
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Promptly following the sentencing of Christopher Correa [see related post] on July 18, 2016, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that Major League Baseball (MLB) is looking further into the hacking incident involving Houston Astros emails and information on players for evaluating potential draft picks.
According to Manfred, he has asked the MLB’s…