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[llien]

Spanish football league La Liga has defended the privacy policy of its app after admitting it was accessing the microphone and GPS of Android users. It said it had been trying to track down venues illegally broadcasting matches, by matching audio data and phone location. The app, downloaded more than 10 million times on the Google Play Store, has been criticised by fans. La Liga said it wanted to "protect clubs and their fans from fraud." The broadcasting of football matches in public places without a paid licence cost the game an estimated 150 million euros ($177m) a year, it said. The new function was enabled on Friday, 8 June.

Via Slashdot


To my knowledge (can't find the link, so read it as "Lllien might be making things up" ) Android P's "AI assisted" adaptive brightness... accesses microphone to better know your "surroundings". (the light sensor based adaptive brightness was there for ages).

 

[Whitecrow]

Oh look, another reason to hate the circus that is football here in Spain.

 

[Halfman The Imp]

I'm not spanish, but if I recall correctly, La Liga is not in terrestrial television in Spain. That's why streaming sites like Roja Directa are so popular.

 

[Unknown Quantity]

They have better net connections and their 3g is faster than our 4g here in London, and last I saw they use Tor quite a bit, so the old guard is trying hard, and who needs privacy and rights and all that jazz.