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Interesting only Android users are targeted thanks to Google's frivolous approach to privacy and surveillance. At what point does Google take responsibility?

Here is an OS and permission system that works against its users based on open source technology by a surveillance loving company actively involved in building a techno dystopia. That summarizes everything wrong with tech today.

But even worse is the army of short sighted and self serving apologists happy to hand wave and diminish everything when not muddying the waters. If this is what a football league is doing one can only imagine what governments and other nefarious interests are upto with Android. When surveillance infrastructure is there it will be used exactly for that.



You always have to explicitly approve recording, and I pretty sure permission monitor can alert you when background recording is happening. It does this for background location usage, for sure.

Granted, the Apple App Store review process would probably have shot down this app.


Android has had the exact same permission model as Apple for years now


The app is using the app for background audio monitoring. Ios apps can't do that without displaying a big bar showing they are recording.

I'm assuming la liga app is background audio.


iPhones in Spain are absurdly expensive.


My other thinking is ROI. The people with the $100 Android phones were perceived as more likely to watch a black-market broadcast.


Of course. If you can spare more than 600€ for a phone, you surely have no problem with pay tv for you giant tv at home. Some like the crowd no matter what, though.




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