Taking advantage of the fact that we never read the fine print when installing
programs on our computers or mobile phones and thinking they are free,
the LFP has been using our mobile devices to know if we are
watching a football match in a public place that is not paying for the
Broadcasting rights for these events.
To do this, it uses two properties of our Smartphone:
Microphone and geolocation device, through these you can listen to
the same as we are hearing at that moment and the place where we are
Located, in this way he can decide whether to act against the place of the
transmission if it does not pay its corresponding fee for the dissemination of the
match that we are watching at that moment.
According to La Liga, they do it for the teams and the fans,
alleging that they intend to protect clubs from fraud in the issuance of
matches by public establishments. This illegal practice involves
annually a loss of 150 million euros in broadcasting rights.
They have recently released an update so that the
user is clear that they can accept geolocation and/or use of geolocation and/or use if they wish
of the microphone by this app.
According to the LFP, by using these options you would only keep
the IP of the connected user and a binary code of the recorded and not recorded sounds
the recording itself.
So be very careful with what you install in your
computer and mobile devices and remember that almost nothing is free even if it is
Look.