To attend the championship this year, fans must use a digital ticket provided through UEFA’s Ticket application. According to Heise, this app requires access to personal data, including name, email, phone number, and GPS permissions. While app store descriptions note the collection of personal information and activity data for analysis purposes, they omit any mention of location sharing.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Europeans is they’ll put up with ANY level of corruption if it involves their glorious football
Or surveillance.
It’s all “privacy, privacy, privacy” when it comes to private companies. But the EU themselves wants all of that data to create a surveillance state.
Not that the US government doesn’t pull the same shit, but it does feel less hypocritical when they do it, because they’re not even pretending to be concerned with privacy.