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States should embrace ‘National Safety Exchange’ to safeguard online sports gambling | Opinion

Biometric identification, together with geo-location and a national safety exchange platform, or Sports Integrity Bureau, is a safe and effective recipe for responsible parties to accommodate sports gaming in the digital age.

In this Aug. 22, 2017 file photo signs display lottery prizes in Chicago. A federal judge has ruled that a law prohibiting interstate wagering applies only to sports gambling and not to state lotteries as some had feared. The ruling, Monday, June 3, 2019, sets aside an opinion issued last year by the U.S. Justice Department that interpreted the 1961 Wire Act as applying to any form of gambling that crosses state lines. That raised concerns that states would lose their lotteries and the educational and other programs they fund.
In this Aug. 22, 2017 file photo signs display lottery prizes in Chicago. A federal judge has ruled that a law prohibiting interstate wagering applies only to sports gambling and not to state lotteries as some had feared. The ruling, Monday, June 3, 2019, sets aside an opinion issued last year by the U.S. Justice Department that interpreted the 1961 Wire Act as applying to any form of gambling that crosses state lines. That raised concerns that states would lose their lotteries and the educational and other programs they fund.Read moreG-Jun Yam / AP
    by Tom Ridge and Tom McMillen, For the Inquirer
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