Month: June 2025

There was a day when getting on a plane was beautiful, comfortable and aspirational. Today most already hates it

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Flying is fascinating. Or it was. Get on the plane, look for the seat and check with illusion that it has a window. A slight tingling when the route starts towards the track. The tremendous push against the seat at the time of accelerating. The incoherent feeling of ungravation when gaining height and we feel pressured against the bottom of the seat. The notice that we can take off our belt and yes, make sure that, mysteriously, we are flying. A formidable trip. I remember my first plane trip. With illusion, with nervousness. But everything changes when, due to the circumstances of life, the plane ceases to be something exceptional and becomes a more or less usual means of transport. Or when you arrive at the airport and check the huge tail with horror to pass a police control that, fortunately, It should be simplified very soon. Or when you discover that you measure more than 1.70 meters and enter the seat becomes an exercise in contortionism. Or when your look visualizes in the poster that the flight is delayed. Or when that little bridge getaway falls apart by an unforeseen cancellation. Or when you reach the destination and you have the keys and wallet at hand, but the suitcase has been lost along the way. Or when … A blow of reality. We have gone from seeing the plane as a luxury transport and associating it with an attractive and unique experience to pray because nothing happens if we have to take one. In 1951, Iberia flew for the first time to New York. On its website We can read how “a select chefs group prepared each meal, poured syrup on the cakes and prepared the trays that would then serve passengers aboard the Iberia airplanes.” There was no trace of huge queues before climbing the plane, from the distinction of passengers in four groups, “that suitcase does not enter” because it measures two and a half centimeters more than expected or charging significant amounts for choosing a seat. In the 50s in Iberia, “only the plane receives more attention than you.” They are not just sensations. It is not only a matter of sensations. Passengers begin to be really fed up with companies’s practices. In Financial Times They give as an example an American passenger who travels regularly with Southwest Airlines. In his five annual trips to the same destination he lived delays, cancellations for various reasons and even loss of the suitcase. It is not an isolated case. For the first time in more than a decade, the negative perception of flights exceeds the positive. In the United States, the fourth part of the 2022 flights were delayed or canceled and only in October the United States Department of Transportation registered 3,000 complaints of users, five times more than in 2019. Two hours. And 10,800 canceled flights. This was the result of a problem in the software of the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States that forced to leave on land all the air paths of the country for a couple of hours. 120 minutes that, as proven, wreaked havoc in the country with greater air traffic of the world. It is calculated which in 2019 traveled 925,500,000 passengers. With data from 2022, the United States is the country that has the most airports in the world. Its enormous distances and the absence of any type of commitment to the train as an alternative medium has caused that last year it will be counted until 16,890 airports. The second country is Brazil, with 4,093. The most recent data in Spain are from 2013, but then added only 150 facilities of this type. A funnel. One of the problems that indicate in the Financial Times article is the lack of workers. Coronavirus pandemia had cleaned, more or lessthe sky of airplanes. The increase in remote meetings caused many companies to ensure Bloomberg That the business trips had ended. But nothing is further from reality. Withdrawal restrictions, The number of trips has firmed again. While Airbus and Boeing thousands of millions are distributed in aircraft purchases, Pilots are missing. Many. In the United States alone, 8,000 new employees are necessary. By 2032 a world scarcity is expected of up to 32,000 pilots. And not just pilots. But pilot scarcity is not the only one that is causing delays, cancellations and generalized discomfort in travelers. In our country we know that traveling on vacation is synonymous with risk. The strikes of land workers, cabin staff and pilots have become generalized in summer and Christmas. The workers of the airlines generally denounce too much work at work for a lack of employees that crawls from the toughest months of the confinements by the COVID-19. It is estimated that those days said goodbye to 191,000 workers in airports and airlines. Photo | Carlos Coronado In Xataka | We have been binding to the suitcases to identify them at the airport for years. Your employees warn that it is a bad idea In Xataka | Naples Airport has rejected a Boeing 787 with 200 passengers on board for a single reason: two meters long

Spacex plays background with the new version of the rocket

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The Starship 36 has flown through the air, in the worst sense. Spacex was preparing a second static ignition trial when a brutal explosion made all the windows in the metropolitan area of ​​Brownsville, Texas. What we know. On Thursday at 23:00, local time in Starbase, the ship that Spacex was preparing for Starship’s tenth flight exploded during the fuel load in a Massey’s test bench, which is how the test zone is known. It has not been to regret victims, since the area was clear for the test. But when the smoke column disappeared, Ship 36, which was going to fly at the end of the month, was no longer. It was seen and not seen. The NSF cameras They captured a sudden flash, followed by a large detonation and another giant just below. Since the ship exploded in the 10 minutes before the ignition test, Spacex had already loaded liquid oxygen and was starting to load liquid methane. The fuel deposits were approximately 10%, which hopefully reduced the scope of the damage. What we don’t know. Although the destruction of the ship is taken for granted, damage to the land infrastructure of Massey’s will not be clear until day. The worst news would be for the facilities to have been useless, which would considerably delay the starship 37 tests, which is already assembled and in the engine integration phase. He Spacex statement It only clarifies that the company is “actively working to ensure the test site” and that “there are no risks for residents of surrounding communities.” The program touches background. This is one of the most important setbacks for the Martian rocket of Spacex, which has touched the bottom after three consecutive launches of the Starship Block 2, the new version of the ship. Of the six second generation starship built: The first exploded during flight 7 for vibrations related to an unforeseen harmonic response in the lower zone of engines bay The second exploded during flight 8 for an unforeseen mixture of propellant during the ascent phase, which caused the explosion of an engine The third exploded during flight 9 for a leak that made him lose control of attitude during the suborbital trajectory, disintegrating himself in the reentry The fourth has exploited on land during the propellant load prior to a static ignition test in the test bench There are two Starship Block 2 to validate before Spacex passes to the third generation starship. The company has not yet been able to prove the satellite deployment due to explosions or, on flight 9, a failure in the door of the load bay. It also has delay with a series of demonstrations related to the thermal shield of the ship, which prevents the complete reuse of the rocket. Image | D Wise, NSF

We complained about the plans with Netflix ads. But it is YouTube who is becoming hell of advertising

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So far those who wanted to avoid the ads in the YouTube videos They had two options. The first, pay a subscription to YouTube Premium, which costs 13.99 euros per month in Spain. The second, use Tools such as Adblockers They try to avoid the appearance of those ads. And Google has proposed to eradicate that second option. Black screens and interruptions. Are several Users of Reddit and of Brave user forum Those who have commented The problems When using this browser – which includes an adblocker – or tools of this style when visiting YouTube. According to your comments, the platform causes that in the first load the videos appear with a totally black screen during the duration of the pre -rol ads (those that appear before the video in question). In addition, YouTube shows a warning message (“Are you experiencing interruptions?”) With a link to the YouTube support site. Just in case, deactivate the adblockers. On that Google support page indicates that users who are affected by problems can “check if browser extensions block advertisements are affecting video playback.” Or navigate in an incognito mode. They also suggest “open youtube in a Incognito window With all the extensions deactivated and check if the problem persists. “In my tests with Brave I have not seen such messages, and neither in Firefox with the extension Ublock Origin. Nor when performing some tests with VPN and with IP from the United States, but this type of problem may depend on other factors. The cat and mouse. YouTube has been trying to fight the use of adblockers for some time, but the developers of these tools usually act quickly and counteract Google’s measures. There are those who indicate that these problems may be limited to user accounts that have been detected in the past using adblockers. In my evidence I had not logged in, which validates that theory. We complained about Netflix. Comparisons with streaming platforms are inevitable, although the differences are clear. Netflix has achieved A resounding success With their plan with advertisements, and in prime video not only things are not going well but for months ago they were going to Increase the presence of advertising. And now they have confirmed that They are going to bend it. The future will have more ads. YouTube offers content for free but with ads, and the business model is similar to other Google services. The difference here is that it is the users who generate these contents, and YouTube is simply the platform that connects the creators with the spectators. Advertising benefits both parties because these ads serve to remunerate creatorsbut the advertising presence on YouTube is increasingly intense and converts experience into something increasingly annoying. The alternative, of course, is to pay Those 13.99 euros per month to access YouTube Premium. Youtube premium lite on the horizon. Google’s strategy has been even clearer with its latest movement: the creation of Youtube Premium Litewhich has already debuted in countries such as Mexico, Argentina or the US. The fundamental advantage is that most videos will not have ads, but we do not have other options such as video downloading to watch them without connection or the back in the background. This new type of subscription thus raises an intermediate bet, but also points to something worrying: more ads in the future. Image | Norwood Themes In Xataka | Modern algorithms decide for us to see. YouTube is the last redoubt where the algorithm does not choose for you

This is the tunnelador who aims to transform line 11 of Madrid

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The expansion of line 11 of the Madrid Metro aspires to much more than adding stations: It wants to become a great diagonal axis that see the city transversely. It is an ambitious, complex work that demands machinery at the height of the challenge. In the center of that machinery is Mayritthe tunnelador that will be in charge of opening a passage underground. It is not a generic machine, but a model expressly designed To adapt to the geological and geotechnical conditions of the Madrid land, and that in the coming months will become the main protagonist of one of the most important developments of public transport in the capital. A tunnelador designed for the Madrid subsoil The tunnelador is already finished. Its manufacture has been in charge of Herrenknecht Agone of the most recognized firms in this type of machinery, and It has developed in its Schwanau factoryGermany, during a 20 -month process. Mayrit is not any tunnelador. It is an EPB model (Earth Pressure Balance)adapted to dig in cohesive land, such as those in Madrid. Measures 98 meters long, It weighs 1,500 tons and is able to advance up to 15 meters per day. On average, you can complete about 500 meters a month with teams of twelve people per shift. To this technical level is added logistics complexity. His transfer to Madrid will not be fast or simple. The machine must be completely dismantledpiece by piece, for the next three months. Then, one will begin trip more than 2,000 kilometers which will combine road journeys to Antwerp, maritime transport to the port of Santander and, from there, its truck transfer to the future Comillas station, in Carabanchel. There will begin the reverse process: a new assembly that will last until March 2026, when it is planned to start operating. Its function will be to drill the section of the section between Elliptical Plaza and Count de Casal, one of the most complex phases of the expansion. The works in this section are already at 18.4% execution, and the regional government has announced an investment of 518 million euros only at this stage. In parallel, manual excavation works have already begun in a 700 -meter stretch between quotes and elliptical square, with a rhythm of progress of about 50 meters per month. The goal: to leave the ground prepared for when Mayrit enters action. And the truth is that, beyond rhetoric, the technology that moves Mayrit is far from being trivial. Inside, A TRANSPORTED SCREW the material excavated to a tape, while pressure sensors allow Real time control the balance of forces in the excavation chamber. This allows to maintain the stability of the front and avoid sinking, even in heterogeneous terrain with the presence of gravel, water or sand. In addition, the system can be adapted on the march to different geological scenarios. Herrenknecht has developed several solutions that convert the end of the endless into a wash circuit to also work with sludge when the land demands. Other modules allow to modify the consistency of the soil by injections of bentonite, water or foam. At the moment, the arrival of Mayrit to Madrid is scheduled for December. Images | Madrid Metro | Herrenknecht In Xataka | The largest concrete wall in Spain is in Salamanca and generates electricity: this is the almond dam

The hunt that still resists in Iran more than 40 years after his arrival. It is not Russian or Iranian. It is the American F-14

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While the missiles cross the air between Israel and Iran, the Israeli Air Force has confirmed A new attack on facilities close to Tehran. According to its version, among the objectives there were at least a couple of fighters F-14 Tomcat. In one of the available videos, the impact on what would be one of the few units that are still in service, almost half a century after having been manufactured. That an American hunt retired in 2006 Keep flying today in one of Washington’s great adversaries is no accident. The explanation is in the convoluted – sometimes contradictory – that history can be. An order, a revolution and a war The History of F-14 in Iran begins in the 70s. The SHA, still strategic ally of the United States, decided to incorporate Dozens of Tomcat fighters to its Air Force, in a military package valued at approximately 2,000 million dollars. To do this, he sent his pilots to train in California. But everything changed in 1979, with the Islamic revolution. The relationship between Iran and the United States deteriorated quickly. Ayatolá Ruhollah Jomeiní ordered the arrest of many of those pilots and left the F-14 on land. But the situation took a new turn in 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran. The authorities decided to free the aviators, and began a career to counterreloj for reactivating a fleet for which there were no longer spare parts. An Iranian pilot next to an F-14 Now, keeping an F-14 in flight is not an easy task. Every flight hour required many more maintenanceand many of its components were impossible to manufacture locally. No access to Western technology, Iran resorted to smugglers, to the black market … And also, in a maneuver as surprising as documented, to the United States. During the 80s, within the framework of the scandal Iran-contextsthe Ronald Reagan administration He secretly authorized The sale of weapons to Tehran in exchange for the release of hostages. Iranian Tomcats equipped with multiple missiles in full flight Today, almost half a century after that SHA request, the F-14 Tomcat It continues to appear In Iran. There are no official figures on how many are or how many are really operational. Some have seen in parades. Others, in blurred videos. And now, according to Israel, at least two would have been destroyed in a recent attack near Tehran. Israeli Air Force announced the impact on Iranian F-14 with this publication That an F-14 is still present in 2025 is not just a technical rarity. It is a string of how convoluted the story can be. A hunt designed for US carriers, designed to face the Soviet Union and retired almost twenty years ago, still appears – in one way or another – in one of the most serious military tensions of the moment. Tomcat was a technological feat. But he is also an unlikely survivor: he went from ally to enemy, he sustained thanks to improvised engineers, to clandestine networks, and the carelessness of those who tried to leave him on the ground forever. Images | Nasim News Agency | Iriaf | Shahram Sharifi | IIAF 2 US Navy (via Wikimedia Commons) In Xataka | If the question is how much the iron dome of Israel can endure, the answer is simple: much more than Iran’s defenses

In a desperate attempt to avoid the blackout, Ree tried to start a gas center seven minutes before the disaster

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The Official reports on the blackout They reveal the maneuvers to counterreloj that the network operator did to try to stabilize the system while rushing into the collapse. T-7 minutes. In the moments of maximum tension (never better) prior to the historic blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula without light on April 28, Red Electric took a desperate measure: he ordered the start of a combined gas cycle center to try to stabilize an electrical system that crumbled at times. The call to the owner of the plant, registered in official reportsthere was just seven minutes before the system collapsed completely at 12:33 at noon. However, the thermal power plant never coupled then The zero of tension It occurred first. It was not a typical morning. That April 28 were the perfect conditions to test the network: a relatively low energy demand, and a very high solar radiation that caused a massive predominance of photovoltaic generation. With a network dominated by the electronics of investors instead of the heavy turbines of the conventional generation, the tension already issued warning signals. At 11:00 in the morning, after a voltage climb, the transformers of two Adif substations in Zaragoza were fired. But the situation became critical from 12:00, with the appearance of strong frequency oscillations that put the stability of the entire network in check. The oscillations. At 12:03, a first 0.6 Hz oscillation was detected, an unusual phenomenon that lasted for almost five minutes, forcing Red Eléctrica to take emergency measures. Among them, reduce electricity exchanges with France and Portugal. It didn’t help much. At 12:19, a new 0.2 Hz oscillation shook the system. Given the seriousness of the situation and the need to “attach more conventional generation” to control the tension, Red Electrico contacted at 12:26 with the head of a combined cycle center in Andalusia to start urgently. The choice was not accidental. The group that could be attached faster in the southern zone was sought, one of the most affected by instability. The chosen central, which had decoupled at 9:00 in the morning, was “hot”, which allowed it a shorter start time: an hour and a half. The goal was to be fully operational at 2:00 p.m. Unfortunately, the system did not have that time. Just seven minutes after the starter order was given, at 12:33, a succession of waterfall generation, mainly due to surgeens, caused the total collapse of the peninsular electrical system. The measure, a last resort to avoid the greatest blackout in the recent history of Spain, “never consummated by the zero of tension.” Image | HRAD (CC by-SA 3.0) In Xataka | Many plants disconnected from the network when the blackout began. The problem is that some renewable did it before

The network did not collapse due to lack of energy, but for lack of control. Renewable continues to be connected as if they were passive

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Almost two months after the blackout that disconnected Spain and Portugal, the government has made public a technical report that focuses on a very specific problem: the lack of tension control at critical moments, especially in renewable parks. Is it possible? As the engineer and energy expert Xavier Cugat has pointed out in networks, the debate on voltage control in renewable facilities is not only a technician: There are technologies that already allow it. One of them is SMA’s ‘Q at Night’ system, which allows solar plants to provide reactive energy even during the night. The idea is clear: if a solar plant can continue to support the network even without sun, part of the stability problem can be mitigated. This does not directly solve the lack of inertia, but complements the voltage support and improves the resilience of the system. Reactive energy The principle is simple but effective. SMA photovoltaic investors, equipped with the Q at night function, They remain connected to the network even when they are not generating active energy (that is, when there is no sun). This allows them to inject or absorb reactive energy as needed, contributing to maintain tension within acceptable margins. In case of high penetration. This type of energy is key to avoiding tension instabilities. In this particular case, it is for a network with low presence of conventional plants. Although it does not contribute inertia, it allows plants to support tension balance and remain connected to critical events instead of disconnecting preventively. So the issue of inertia? This is where it is necessary to clarify. The Government report has made it clear that collapse was not a consequence of a frequency fall, but of a cascado of over -overdations. Even in a scenario of greater inertia, over -overdrafts would have also produced, according to the report. Therefore, the lack of inertia was not the direct cause of collapse; The collapse was the one that caused the fall in frequency. During the blackout, different plants were disconnected preventively when detecting overtheions. The problem is that, according to the report, several of these disconnections occurred before even the maximum limits allowed by the regulations were reached. In other words: they did not respond properly to the network conditions. A system not adapted to its own transition The problem seems structural: the electricity grid has not evolved at the same rate as the massive renewable deployment. With 82% clean generation and the least amount of operational synchronous plants throughout the year, the system faced an explosive cocktail: a lot of distributed generation, little centralized control and little response capacity against critical events. In just 12 seconds, the entire Iberian system of the rest of Europe was disconnected. A transition without security network. The blackout was a symptom, not an anomaly. Spain leads the renewable transition, but without a prepared network, each advance becomes vulnerability. The voltage control, the response to incidents and the ability to maintain stability without large machines spinning are the great challenge of the new energy paradigm. Image | Pexels Xataka | 49 days after the blackout, the government has published the official report. Against all prognosis, he points to a culprit

is also exhausting who goes to the office

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One of the ills that the workers attributed to teleworking was that the limits were diluted between working time and leisure time. However, A recent study De Microsoft has revealed that this phenomenon has also reached the offices and more and more workers feel that the Workday never ends and that the real disconnection is a luxury unattainable. 33% are focused on exhaustion. Microsoft has put figures to this phenomenon: one in three employees You can no longer keep up Tax for the current dynamics of work imposed in the last five years, regardless of the type of day you have. Microsoft’s study is based on millions of anonymized data obtained from the use of Microsoft 365. Its authors warn that “we are trapped in a seemingly infinite workday.” This situation not only It affects productivity day to day, but increases the exhaustion and anxiety Among the workers. A Post Tsunami. The study data suggest that 40% of employees connected at six in the morning begin their day reviewing the mail to establish priorities during the rest of the day. On average, each worker receives 117 posts a day and most are processed in less than 60 seconds. The problem that reveals is that the information they transmit It is not relevant For the employee. In addition, the mass emails sent to more than 20 recipients have increased by 7% in the last year, while personalized conversations have fallen by 5%. This indicates an increase in “digital noise” that hinders communication management (the really useful) and The concentration. Meetings at the worst moment. Productivity is especially affected by the amount of interruptionsbut also for the poor management of meetings. The study indicates that 50% of all meetings are scheduled between 9 and 11 in the morning and between 13 and 15 hours in the afternoon. According to A published study in Harvard Business Reviewtaking into account the Circadian rhythmsit is precisely in that time strip when the natural peak of productivity for most people occurs. That is, the most productive moment of the day is being used for the most unproductive task. Following this line, the study reveals that Tuesdays have become the most saturated day of meetings (23% of the weekly total), while Fridays only represent 16%. In addition, 57% of the meetings are improvised and one in ten is scheduled at the last minute. The triple peak day. The constant interruptions During the work day D gives rise to a phenomenon that Microsoft has already detected In previous studies: the phenomenon of “Triple Pico“, which has now become the general norm. This phenomenon describes a peak of productivity and use of office tools about 10 in the morning, another about 15 hours in the afternoon and a last peak from 8 pm in the afternoon. The study reveals that meetings after 8 in the afternoon They have increased 16% in the last year. On the other hand, Microsoft has detected an increase in the use of its tools beyond 18 hours. That is, many employees take advantage of digital noise reduction At the end of the day To concentrate on their main tasks, increasing the use of office tools and reducing the messaging. This trend only aggravates the feeling of Never have a real free time. A little look to the mail. The inability to disconnect is evident in the fact that almost 20% of employees review their job mail before noon on Saturday and Sunday. More than 5% reviewed a second time beyond 18 hours on Sunday or on holidays, extending the work week to the rest days. Microsoft telemetry reveals that, during the weekend, the use of office applications is increased, indicating that employees use that rest time for work concentrated and without the distractions they find during their workday. In Xataka | LOn the way back to the office it has had a devastating effect for the concentration of employees: not 30 minutes without distracted Image | Unspash (Jakub żerdzicki)

The atmosphere has been stuck in a “extreme heat generator” on Spain. That means something: a hard summer

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The first fortnight of June has brought us more typical temperatures at the end of July or even August: there have been numerous days in which wide areas of the southern peninsular have seen the thermometers exceed the 40º line. The problem now is not that heat stays with us throughout the summer, the problem is that it may go more. Same trend. The heat seems determined to settle on the peninsula, or at least that is what can be detached from models such as those used by the European Center for Middle Term weather forecasts (ECMWF). To understand why, we have to look higher towards the atmosphere. About 1,500 meters high. According to Explain The physicist, disseminator and researcher at Aemet JJ German in his account Twitterwe have the track in the forecasts on the temperature at height at 850 hectopascales (HPA), which usually refer to an approximate height in the atmosphere of 1,500 meters, the low troposphere zone. The temperature at this level tends to be related to the temperature that we see at soil level, so it can serve as a reference for how temperatures will evolve in the coming days. According to data shared by German, we not only find a temperature above the climatological average (an anomaly above the 5th Celsius), but the situation will last, with the possibility that this anomaly approaches 10th towards the end of June. “This is barbarity: far from returning to balance as normal, atmospheric dynamics on the Iberian Peninsula seem to get stuck in an extreme heat generator,” explained in its publication. Looking at the map. If we focus on The map Prepared by ECMWF, we will also see that heat will remain foreseeably installed on our heads. The forecasts indicate that during the next ten days the almost entire peninsula will be under the influence of temperatures above 20º to 850 HPA, with large areas above the 24th and with some points, the 28th barrier temporarily exceeds. What’s happening. In a second TweetGerman explained what is happening. According to the expert, a Dana located west of the peninsula and a dorsal (an extension of high pressures associated with an anticyclone) would be responsible for the situation. A situation that would be seeing aggravated by the low atmospheric movement, thus achieving what German refers as a “static equilibrium point.” The result: heat and more heat. The result is the intuitive: this warm episode seems to be sentenced to extend over time, at least during the next week. The maximum in a large part of the Peninsular South They could stay above 36º and promptly above 40º. In Xataka | At the end of May we reached 40ºC: it is only the appetizer of the decimer summer a consecutive warmer than normal according to aemet Image | ECMWF

Two false dnis, three commercial calls and 70,000 euros of fine. Lebara has been expensive not to check who buys his sim

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Three commercial calls being in the Robinson list They have been enough for the Spanish Data Protection Agency to put the Mobiles SA out -of the focus, a company after which Yoigo operates. A particular and unusual case, in which the company has been sanctioned with 70,000 euros despite having demonstrated that the realization of These calls It was not at the hands of Yoigo. It was enough with three calls. The Exp202205208 file acts with a sanctioning basis for a claim filed in April 2022. The consumer presented to the agency the reception of Commercial calls In your mobile line promoting Yoigo servicesclaiming to be registered in the Robinson list. Only screenshots were necessary to provide the records of the three calls, made between March 18, April 11 and 12. The first question begins here. How is Yoigo possible to call a user of the advertising exclusion list for commercial purposes? It wasn’t Yoigo. In accordance with the data protection laws, the AEPD transferred said claim to Xfera, so that the operator informs within one month on these actions. Xfera’s response was overwhelming: None of his authorized lines had issued those calls. After the response of the operator’s corporate name, the case was filed. But it was not there. The user claimed again to the AEPD, making the case reopened. Xfera was urged, again, to investigate the three telephone numbers made the calls. Although none of them had officially called, he admitted that one of them was in his name during the months of April and June 2022. The AEPD continued to track, and contacted the owner of that line. The telephone bill and the call registration of recent months were reviewed, concluding again that it was not called from said phone. Although the user claimed that the commercial calls talked about Yoigo offers, the AEPD concluded next to Xfera that the line belonged to a SIM of Lebara, a small OMV also of the MásMóvil group and that only markets prepaid lines. Uncovering the cake. Of the three investigated numbers, only one had a postal address. The AEPD found that the other two lines were registered with False dnismaking the identification of those responsible for the calls impossible. In short, everything indicates that these calls for advertising purposes were nothing more than scam attempts, telephone scams to obtain the data from the one who received the calls. A fine for negligence. Despite having shown that Xfera was not the first responsible in this practice, the AEPD has imposed a fine of 70,000 euros for being the final responsible for the data processing. It obliges, in the same way, to implement within six months new measures to verify the real identity of new prepaid clients. Similarly, Lebara will have to audit and regularize all its active lines to verify that they are under verified identities. A particular case that, again, resolves that responsibility for certain scam attempts lies on operators. Something that remembers Recent Supreme Court ruling making it clear that, in case of bank fraud by Phishing, the person responsible is the bank. Image | Andrei Metelev In Xataka | Exposed to Sim Swapping: It’s time to upload the security bar when granting card duplicates

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