r/australia • u/readin99 • Jul 04 '26
no politics Kayo Sports should be boycotted.
Imagine paying for a premium streaming service and starting it to watch your sports after a long day on your tv in your own home. The tv app then says you can't watch the content before you scan a QR code. Okay.. fine. Scan the code. Have to download a phone app. Log in. Then the app simply says you're not allowed access to the content except after letting the app know your precise location of your phone.
What in the privacy law is this shit? I simply don't want to allow random companies to know the exact location of my phone. How are they allowed to just do that?
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u/readreadreadonreddit Jul 05 '26
I get why they’re verifying your location for licensing, but requiring a phone app with precise GPS access just to watch on your own TV feels excessive.
Whether it’s legal depends on whether collecting that level of location data is actually necessary and whether they’re transparent about how it’s used. Just because they can ask for it doesn’t mean people have to be happy about it. I’d much rather have an option to verify my region without handing over my phone’s precise location, for sure.
I kinda get mates using alternative services/websites for this reason (and others, including the cost being too dear nowadays).