Madrid | Spain's football league has been fined €250,000 ($408,630) for using fans' mobile phones as spying tools to crack down on bars screening matches via pirated television signals.

Using its app, La Liga would remotely turn on the microphone function of users' phones to listen for the sound of a broadcast match. The geolocation function was then able to establish the whereabouts of the person watching a game to check whether they were in an establishment with a paid subscription to an official La Liga package, or if it was an illicit signal.

The Telegraph London