[Technology] La Liga app accessed phone microphones to identify bars illegally showing football

[BNthree]

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/06/12/inenglish/1560350300_425732.html?id_externo_rsoc=TW_CM_EN

Part of the article:

"La Liga’s application was designed to offer users all of the Spanish soccer results online, as well providing information about First and Second Division teams. But other functions, such as the use of the microphone to detect the sound of television broadcasts – in a similar way to song-identifying applications such as Shazam – had also been included. Given that the application from La Liga also tracked the geolocation of the user, the data collected could be compiled and crosschecked in order to determine if the establishment the user was in was paying the proper cable television fees to broadcast the game in question."

 

[hans kraay fan club]

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/06/12/inenglish/1560350300_425732.html?id_externo_rsoc=TW_CM_EN

Part of the article:

"La Liga’s application was designed to offer users all of the Spanish soccer results online, as well providing information about First and Second Division teams. But other functions, such as the use of the microphone to detect the sound of television broadcasts – in a similar way to song-identifying applications such as Shazam – had also been included. Given that the application from La Liga also tracked the geolocation of the user, the data collected could be compiled and crosschecked in order to determine if the establishment the user was in was paying the proper cable television fees to broadcast the game in question."

Clever (sneaky) buggers.

 

[BensGrandad]

No doubt the Premier League will follow suit but how would it affect private users not operating bars.

 

[FatSuperman]

They won’t follow suit given that is likely to be contravening several privacy laws.

 

[rogersix]

No doubt the Premier League will follow suit but how would it affect private users not operating bars.

like you, do you mean?

 

[beorhthelm]

They won’t follow suit given that is likely to be contravening several privacy laws.

sounds like breach of Computer Misuse Act in this country, effectivly hacking the phone with a trojan software. very naughty.

 

[Creaky]

sounds like breach of Computer Misuse Act in this country, effectivly hacking the phone with a trojan software. very naughty.

I wonder how many apps I have on my phone and iPad can legally do the same?

I don’t think I’ve ever fully read the T&Cs I happily agree to when installing an app.

 

[FatSuperman]

I wonder how many apps I have on my phone and iPad can legally do the same?

I don’t think I’ve ever fully read the T&Cs I happily agree to when installing an app.

True for most of us, but putting something in the small print doesn’t absolve the company from legal responsibility. Bill Gates could have slipped in a slavery contract into the Windows 95 shrink-wrapped license agreement, but it doesn’t mean we’d all be legally bound to him ����

 

[vegster]

I wonder how many apps I have on my phone and iPad can legally do the same?

I don’t think I’ve ever fully read the T&Cs I happily agree to when installing an app.

Precisely ! and for that reason I will never have an Alexa or whatever in the house that eavesdrops on conversations and which films and tv that's watched. Sinister times ahead !

 

[pishhead]

No doubt the Premier League will follow suit but how would it affect private users not operating bars.

The police hired by BT will be hired to remotely access laptops and omsung phines to arrest people.