Spanish DPA fines soccer league 250K euros
La Liga has been fined 250,000 euros for violating the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
La Liga was using their mobile app to detect the bars that screen football matches without paying by activating the microphone of any user’s mobile so that it can detect sounds that bars emits if a private signal is used. AEPD found that information presented to users was opaque.
