TECH

Spanish league fined 250,000 euros for spying via app
The Spanish football league, La Liga, was fined 250,000 euros by the Spanish data protection agency for its app oAo que parece, the official La Liga app activated the users' microphones and made use of the ability of GPS to identify bars with illegal broadcasts of Spanish championship football matches. The app is used by more than four million users in Spain.
The La Liga has already announced that it intends to appeal and argues that users are asked to grant the app access to the location and microphone of the smartphone and therefore should not be accused of violating the privacy of users. advanced to El País that the ability to activate the microphone in the app will be removed during the next month. official violate European privacy laws data privacy. Miguel Dias