La Liga fined for spying on app users to find illegal streams
Getty Images | La Liga fined for using its popular app to find bars illegally broadcasting games by tapping into users’ location data and microphones. Here Brahim Diaz of Real Madrid and Marc Bartra of Real Betis Balompie battle for the ball during the La Liga match between the two teams in May.
The Spanish Data Protection Agency has fined La Liga for illegally using geolocation and microphones in its app to find illegal streams.
La Liga admits it has used the technology but denies wrongdoing as users accept the app will use their microphone.
12 June 2019 - 9:25 AM
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