Re:Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'
by acjohnson55 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:12AM
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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.
Re:Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'
by Larrikin on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:44PM
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Android has had the exact same permission model as Apple for years now
Re:Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'
by graeme on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:27PM
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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.
Re:Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'
by narag on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:59PM
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iPhones in Spain are absurdly expensive.
Re:Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'
by Scoundreller on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:56AM
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My other thinking is ROI. The people with the $100 Android phones were perceived as more likely to watch a black-market broadcast.
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.