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Fantasy Sports Sites Ban Employees From Playing On Rival Sites
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Imagine that you're looking to work at a tennis shop. But here's one of the rules once you get hired: you can't play tennis anymore.
That might be how some employees at the Boston-based fantasy sports site DraftKings are feeling after it was announced that both DraftKings and the New York-based site FanDuel are banning employees from playing on rival sites.
The announcement comes after a DraftKings data leak raised questions about the ethics of the games.
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Callum Borchers, reporter for The Boston Globe covering media, technology and the business of sports. He tweets @callumborchers.
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The Boston Globe: DraftKings CEO Defends Ethics, Balks At Regulation
- "The chief executive of DraftKings Inc. on Wednesday mounted a spirited defense of his company’s handling of a controversial internal data leak, while Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said she will press the two leading fantasy sports operators to take additional steps to protect consumers."
This segment aired on October 8, 2015.