Is La Liga Spying On Its Android App Users
Earlier this month, La Liga was fined 250,000 euros by Spain’s data-protection agency for spying on its app’s users. The app was tracking users’ locations and accessing their microphones to listen to their surroundings in order to uncover bars that were streaming its soccer games illegally. The La Liga app was using an algorithm similar to Shazam to identify broadcasts of its games. Combining this data with users’ geolocations, it could pinpoint specific bars and look at whether the broadcast was unlicensed....