LaLiga fined $280k for soccer app's privacy violating spy mode

transparency or information about this functionality.”“LaLiga will appeal the decision in court to prove that has acted in accordance with data protection regulations,” it adds.A video produced by LaLiga to try to sell the spy mode function to fans following last year’s social media backlash claims it does not capture any personal data — and describes the dual permission requests to use the microphone as “an exercise in transparency”.Clearly, the AEPD takes a very different view.LaLiga’s argument against the AEPD’s decision that it violated the GDPR appears to rest on its suggestion that the watchdog does not understand the technology it’s using — which it claims “neither record, store, or listen to conversations”.So it looks to be trying to push its own self-serving interpretation of what is and isn’t personal data.