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The collateral effects of LaLiga blockages in thousands of users

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Soccer Week, Blocking Week. With the support of a judicial sentenceLaLiga has power to ask the operators to Block certain IP addresses. The problem of killing flies to guns is that these blockages do not affect only the domains related to the retransmissions that LaLiga considers illegal: companies and individuals that have little or nothing to do with football are being affected. Visiting a website is not available is a draft problem, even more so if the address you need to access is necessary to work. Movistar and O2 They are at the head of criticism, but even “small” operators like Digi They have been intensifying the blockages for months. From Xataka spoken with affected and compiled several of the testimonies that flood both social networks and forums. The problem is common and easy to replicate: football day, problem day. Why indiscriminate blockages At first glance, it clashes that the order of an operator to block a unique IP address, supposedly to issue illegal content, can leave dozens of websites inaccessible that they have no relation to her. Although it seems illogical, this effect is a direct consequence of how an important part of the Internet infrastructure works. A habitual (and economic) practice in web accommodation is shared hosting, where multiple sites operate from a single server and share a single IP address. This configuration causes an unwanted collateral effect: as the blockade applies to the complete direction, it cannot differentiate individual sites. Thus, if a website with supposedly illegal football streaming shares the IP with the website you use to work, both will be blocked if the operator is given the order. It is the reason why a fall or blockade in a CDN (Content delivery network) as Cloudflare either Vercel It ends up causing dozens of websites to cease to be accessible. If the service provider blocks an address, those that share it fall as dominoes. How it is affecting users There are several more than known websites to which users They are not being able to access certain websites during the game days. In the closest cases, Xataka companions have suffered problems to access platforms such as Bluesky from the average in specific cases. Always on the weekend (coinciding with the game days). In some cases, the service provider clarifies that we cannot access a certain website by the judicial block. In others, simply do not load the page It is the same case as a server, which a few weeks ago suffered several problems to enter forocoches (where there are already numerous threads reporting difficulties to access the forum). The tonic was exactly the same. In the hours before the party, access to this address was blocked. It was not until the hours after the meeting when it could be accessed normally, both from mobile data and from WiFi. This is a relatively lower problem. Gravity increases when the user cannot access their web platforms necessary to work. This is the case of Álex Jiménez, a journalist of the Local section of Córdoba in eldiario.es. “In my case I am a Digi user. The blockade is simple: at the time the weekend arrives and LaLiga’s games, Besocy’s website stops loading, showing the message I shared in the publication. I have tried to use other devices such as my personal phone or the tablet, both for wifi and by mobile network, and the blockade continues to exist. Normally it stops working both Saturday and Sunday. There is no margin of doubt: the message you see when trying to access Besocya platform that provides media tools, is that “this IP address has been blocked in compliance with the provisions of the judgment of December 18, 2024”. Even more concrete is the case of Rodrigo, who has a Homelab At home to house some of your websites. During the hours before the matches, in some cases from noon, Cloudflare begins to cut the tap. “I use Digi, in my case I have hired the 10GB because I give it enough use since I have a homelab at home and I lodge enough services for the public too. I am happy in that aspect, speed, stability and support. Until the day D arrived, when I see that I cannot access one of my webs Being failing. And indeed, with a VPN, in my case I use protonvpn, connecting even to a server in Spain, everything worked magically, it was to disconnect the VPN and nothing was loaded. Since then I began to monitor all the cloudflare IP’s, at least those that assign me, by region or the plan that I have hired with them. And as a clock, every time there would be football, Cloudflare fell and the second my websites. Rodrigo’s case is one of the most visual, since he has shared with us the hours in which Cloudflare begins to give problems: they coincide with the meeting days and begin to “revive” when the game ends. Fall in the days that there is a game, during the previous hours and its celebration and with return to normal after its completion. This is the blockade that, indiscriminately, are applying operators under court order. What can I do as affected LaLiga blocks are protected by a judicial sentence, one that Rootedcon He wants to lie down after collecting data and testimonies of users and companies that are suffering the blockages in legitimate web addresses. He has been trying to propose nullity incident since February. For now, This is a legal practice (although with serious doubts around and with several demands against him) and we cannot prevent in any way that the operator is given to carry out the blockade. Despite this, we can put some practices into play to try to overcome these blockages. Use VPN: In Xataka We have detailed How to avoid the lalaiga block to cloudflare using VPN. This is the easiest way to skip the restriction since, to perform the blockade the operator not only … Read more

Synthetic data is not enough, so Apple wants users to help improve their AI: this will work its system

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Apple Intelligence is herebut its premiere has not been as brilliant as many expected. The company’s new proposal still has improvement marginboth in English and Spanish. Although it has been presented as a clear sales argument, its impact among people has been rather discreet. The first impressions are mixed And, for now, he has not managed to generate a groundbreaking enthusiasm. From Cupertino they already move to reinforce one of the greatest software bets in their recent history. Among the movements in progress stand out two fronts: The rumored restructuring of the team responsible for Siri, whose improved version has been delayed up to 2026and the creation of new techniques designed to improve their language models, with the mission of not neglecting their approach to privacy. One step beyond synthetic data Apple usually training its models with synthetic data and data labeled by humansa solution that has been effective to some extent. It does not always represent the real world. Consequently, it limits the functioning of AI products. This has led the technological led by Tim Cook to develop a new solution that combines synthetic data with anonymous signals of participating devices. As explained in an article published this weekeverything begins with a synthetic message, that is, an email invented by Apple itself with a format that simulates the real emails. For example: “Would you like to play tennis tomorrow at 11:30?” From there, several variants are generated that change some elements, such as sport, schedule or tone, to try different possible structures. These phrases are sent to a part of the devices whose users have agreed to share analytics with Apple. There is something key: each iPhone, iPad or Mac Take a handful of real emails transformed into Embeddings local, that is, mathematical representations that convert each message into a set of numbers that reflect their theme, style and length. The important thing is that these emails never leave the device. Thus, the system compares Embeddings synthetic, which Apple has previously generated, with the Embeddings Real emails, to see which ones are more similar. This resemblance is reduced to an anonymous signal, a simple “this version coincides better”, which is sent to Apple without revealing the original mail or the Embedding of the user. With this, Apple intends to learn which synthetic variants better reflect the real use of language, but without seeing a single fragment of private content. The idea is that this helps improve Apple Intelligence functions such as email summaries or writing tools. This approach is based on the same differential privacy techniques that Apple already uses in other functions such as Genmoji. In that case, the company collects anonymous signals about what Prompts They are more popular, such as “a dinosaur with a hat”, to improve the results without registering which user made what request. The idea is simple but very interesting. Improving without using user data data allows you to maintain the privacy approach that the company has been defending so many years. This new technique will begin to be implemented in the next betas of iOS 18.5, Ipados 18.5 and Macos 15.5. It should be noted that only those who have activated the option to share analytics from the privacy settings are activated. So, if you don’t want to be part of this system, You can deactivate it whenever. You just have to go to Settings > Privacy and safety > Analysis and improvements and deactivate the option “Share iPhone analysis”. Images | Apple | APPSHUNTER In Xataka | Public administrations turn the tortilla: Midni promises to be another success with Midgt and my citizen folder

Google is winning the AI ​​race. OpenAi has something better: users

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OpenAI, who just launched GPT-4.1he is losing technological ground against Gemini 2.5 Pro, but paradoxically his domain in users is strengthened thanks to the viral phenomenon of the generation of images in Chatgpt. The panoramic. The launch of GPT-4.1 reveals an awkward truth: OpenAI no longer technically leads. Not as before, at least. Your new model is behind Gemini 2.5 Pro Google in programming tasks, precisely where he tried to highlight. Meanwhile, Chatgpt has become The most downloaded application in the world Thanks to the virality of their abilities to generate Ghibli style illustrations either Action dolls. Why is it important. The situation confirms that there is no Moat (The technological concept that refers to a “defensive pit”). Advances are equalized in months. However, Openai has built something more valuable: a platform with mass traction and network effects than Google, despite its technical superiority and huge ecosystem, has not managed to replicate. Between the lines. This contrast defines well the complex dynamic of the AI ​​market: you can have the best technology (Google, In a way Anthropic) and yet lose the battle for users. Or you can be losing the technological avant -garde (Openai) while dominating mass adoption. It is a paradox that can only face itself, but not refuse. The turn. Sam Altman’s strategy seems to be pivoting. Recently said That “the models come and go, but we want to be the best platform.” A phrase that makes sense watching this trajectory: OpenAi prepares for a future where the value is on the platform, not necessarily having the best model. It is something similar to What we commented after trying Grok 3: Their abilities as a model are up to what others offer for most uses. Even above. But it does not have the product that others do have: GPTS, projects, Canvasintegrations, etc. In summary. We are seeing two parallel races in AI: The technological (which Google is winning for now). And that of mass adoption (dominated by Openai). This duality anticipates a future that will not necessarily belong to those who develop the best technology, but to whom it best integrates it into experiences that convince millions of users. And that is a lesson that should worry Google, whose technical leadership with Gemini 2.5 Pro does not translate into market domain, despite having a huge ecosystem where Android, Chrome, Gmail, the search engine, YouTube, Maps, Docs … In Xataka | The AI ​​always wanted us to pay to access their advanced versions. Your plan now is that we pay … for using it a lot Outstanding image | Solen Feyissa in Unspash

12 million people delivered their DNA to 23Andme. The company broke, but the problem for users goes further

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“Discover what your DNA says about you and your family.” This is how 23Andme, a company that proposes something as simple as sending a saliva sample and receiving information about the origin of your ancestors or possible relatives lost over time. No needles, without blood: a domestic genetic test that promises personal answers to ancestral questions. A few days after registering on the platform, the user receives at home a small box with a collection tube. You just have to deposit a saliva sample and return the package by mail. From there, the DNA is digitized and analyzed by algorithms. Three or four weeks later, the results appear directly on the entrance tray. In bankruptcy. Open the door to the past for less than $ 120 seemed a proposal for success. However, things did not go as expected. Last Sunday, 23 Andme accepted Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Law, that is, he declared himself in bankruptcy, and his CEO, Anne Wojcicki, soon presented her resignation. This outcome was not sudden. 23Andme had been facing doubts about his business model, disputes with investors and a concern for the property of his huge genetic database. Has never reported net benefits And its stock market value has collapsed in recent yearsentering a complicated field. Wojcicki tried to get the company several times, but its proposals were rejected again and again. “Although it disappoints me that we have reached this situation and that my offer has been rejected, support for the company and I intend to participate as a bidder,” The executive said in a shared message this Monday in X. Privacy nightmare. More than 12 million people, according to figures that we found on their website, shared their DNA with 23andme. Now, they could see how their data end up in the hands of another company. It is a very real possibility: the restructuring process includes the sale of assets with the objective of “maximizing the value of the business.” The situation has lit the alarms of the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, who issued an consumer alert focused on privacy. In it, he recalled that any citizen has the right to ask the company to eliminate their data and the destruction of any genetic sample that still retains. The company, on the other hand, has assured that there will be no changes in the way it protects user data during the bankruptcy process. However, your security history is far from being impeccable. Without going any further, last year One of its databases with millions of profiles on the Dark Web was leaked. Images | 23ndme In Xataka | My data has been filtered, now what: the steps you should always take that there is a massive filtration on the Internet that can affect you

Free remote access disappears after a decade and takes a worrying turn for its users

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Plex has announced which will increase the price of your subscriptions and make your main free function into payment service: remote reproduction of personal content. The changes will take effect on April 29, marking the end of an era for millions of users who used the platform to access their multimedia libraries from anywhere without having to pay for it. Why is it important. This decision directly affects millions of users who have built domestic ecosystems based on the premise of being able to access their personal content from any location. The changes represent a total turn in the business model of Plex. The figures. Price increase is considerable: Monthly subscription: from $ 4.99 to $ 6.99 (+40%). Annual subscription: from $ 39.99 at $ 69.99 (+75%). Vitalicia subscription: from $ 119.99 to $ 249.99 (+108%). It is easy to read between the lines what Plex intends with these different increases: to promote the monthly to increase their monthly recurring income … and dissuade the life, or at least monetize it much more aggressive. There are alternatives. For those who see a reason here to migrate from Plex: Jellyfinopen and free source, without payment or telemetry functions. Embyversatile without too much complexity, with a free version robust. Kodiveteran customization. Stremiofocused on streaming from different sources. The current situation. Until now, Plex allowed its users to configure a domestic server and remotely access its content for free. This model has been the basis of the growth of the platform for more than a decade, which has become tremendously popular. The change. As of April 29, you will have two options if you want to continue accessing your remote content: That the server owner has a plex pass. In this case, all users who give access can continue to see content remotely. Hire the new “Remote Watch Pass” for $ 1.99 per month or 19.99 a year, which allows remotely accessing servers whose owners do not have plex pass. Between the lines. Plex justifies these changes alleging “growing costs” and the need to continue developing new functions. However, the decision comes at a time when they want to position themselves as a legitimate competitor in the saturated streaming market. The company has been incorporating new social and discovery functions during the last year, in addition to launching A store to rent movies and series. These movements are subtle signs of a strategy to become a complete streaming platform, beyond its original function as a personal media manager. As compensation, Plex will eliminate the limitation of one minute reproduction in its mobile applications and it will no longer be necessary to pay a unique activation fee to eliminate this restriction. And now what? If you are a plex user, you have until April 29 to buy a life subscription at the current price of $ 119.99, before it doubles. The current monthly and annual subscribers will see their rates increase, while those who already have a life subscription will not be affected. Content streaming in the same local network will remain free, as well as access to content with advertising offered by the platform. In Xataka | Plex: 21 tricks (and some extra) to get the whole game Outstanding image | Plex, Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio

Netflix is ​​not worried that users cancel the subscription. The data reflect that, sooner or later, most return

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How is it possible that content platforms on demand They rise in price year and year also if every time users cancel (or say they cancel) their subscription? It’s curious. Normally, in another context, it would be that price increases and foreseeable cancellations affected companies, but Netflix does not seem that it matters. Rather. Context. Despite price increases and the wave of cancellations that comments on social networks usually imply, the reality is that Netflix’s benefit It was 10,247 million dollars In the fourth quarter of 2024, 16% more than the same quarter of the previous year and the best result since 2021. Was the users canceling their mass subscriptions? If we understand “mass cancel” as in the United States only 19 million subscribers arrive in the fourth quarter of 2024 when Netflix expected 9.8 million, then yes. Comes back. According to data from the Analytical analysis company to which it has had access Business Insiderthe reality is as follows: price increases cause cancellations, yes, but users do not take long to return. The case of Netflix is ​​also curious because this “repentance” is greater than on the rest of the platforms. The data. According to Antenna, 50% of users who cancel their subscription subscribe at six months. If we expand the time range until the year, the percentage rises to 61% of users. In other words, six out of ten cancellations recover after the year. In the case of having canceled a price increase, the return will be with updated prices, ergo paying more and compensating in some way the cancellations not recovered. Moreover, it is most likely that user who returns to opt for a cheaper plan, but with advertising. 55% of the new highs They choose that modality, in fact. The data reflects that the Netflix subscriber recovery rate is much higher than that of its competitors Netflix vs the world. The consultant’s data shows that Netflix’s recovery rate is much higher than the average of the rest of the platforms. While at six months Netflix recovers 50% of users, the rest of the platforms barely recover 34%. In the case of Netflix it is also striking that two out of ten cancellations recover in just one month. There is a roof. Netflix has not stopped innovating in its programming, moving from series and films to also offer sports and live events. 300 million subscribers give good faith that this has worked, but everything has a limit. Netflix seems aware that 1) continuing to grow will be complicated and 2) “As we continue to invest in programming and offer more value to our partners, we will occasionally ask them to pay a little more to be able to reinvest and continue improving Netflix.” That is to say, that prices will continue to rise. Netflix knows that continuing subscribers will not be easy and maybe that explains that from now Don’t give that figure. We will know numbers of audiences, view, benefits, growth, etc., but not how many subscribers do Netflix have. Most likely, we will not see that data again until the 400 or 500 million are reached, very publicitable figures and from which the platform can breastfeed. Cover image | Netflix In Xataka | This exclusive Netflix thriller competes in intensity and brutality with ‘John Wick’ and is already number 1 in 27 countries

Free users will win

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We are witnessing how the Artificial Intelligence (AI) It evolves and how many functions that begin being paid end up reaching free accounts, expanding access to increasingly advanced technologies. Proof of this are GPT-4, The O1 reasoning model YLto generate generative images on various platforms. Since last year, those who use Chatgpt You can try Advanced voice mode Without going through box. The only problem: if they reached the limit, I had to wait four weeks to use it again. This has just changed. OpenAi has announced that free chatbot users will have access to a daily test of The function that reminds us of the movie ‘Her’. Now you can use the advanced voice mode every day without paying The new limits of advanced voice mode are already available worldwide, including the European Union. This means that today you can start talking with Chatgpt and, if you exceed the limit, you can do it again the next day. While this can translate into one more reason not to pay a subscription, payment members have certain advantages. According to the company led by Sam Altmanthe advanced voice mode of Chatgpt plus A daily limit five times greater than free accounts. In addition, it works with GPT-4Othe most advanced OpenAI non -advance model. Free tests, meanwhile, work with GPT-4o Mini, a smaller and more limited version of the language model. The advanced voice mode has many differences with respect to the standard (original) mode mode. Not only offers more natural and fluid responseswith pauses and intonations closer to human, but can also be interrupted. And, being driven by a multimodal model, provides quick answers thanks to lower latency. The live vision capacity will continue to be limited to payment users in all cases. He Live Camera moderemember, allow the chatbot to see the surrounding environment. It is a very interesting capacity that opens the door to a lot of profits, such as helping us perform tasks or explaining what it sees. As we have seen, Openai and other companies have begun to offer free advanced functions, but not by chance. The play seems to have at least two clear goals: attract users so that they subscribe later and avoid being behind in an increasingly fierce A -race where rivals like Deepseek They do not go unnoticed. Outstanding image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio In Xataka | “The AI ​​is unstoppable”: Freepik’s CEO tells us about ia, entrepreneurship and errors of an EU that is only fixed in the dangers of AI

Google has more money, users and benefits than ever. It is also more scared than ever

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Google has just announced financial results that at any other time would be a reason for celebration. Income by 12% higher, benefits fired by 28% and their cloud division growing at 30%. But Wall Street has responded with A 7% drop in its action In pre -opening. Google had never had so much, but it is also when you have to lose. Between the lines. The investment of 75,000 million dollars in AI for 2025, 47% above expected, is not read as a demonstration of strength but as a defensive reaction. Google is spending more than ever to defend its territory, while competitors like Deepseek have shown that it can be innovated in the much less. In figures. The numbers are overwhelming: Income: 96,470 million dollars (+12%). Net profit: 26,540 million (+28%). Google Cloud: 11,960 million (+30%). Investment in AI: 75,000 million planned for 2025. The backdrop. For the first time in its history, Google is on the defensive. The threat of generative AI to its search business is real and the company is forced to react to innovations of smaller competitors. An unthinkable scenario two years ago. The giant who changed the Internet is now chasing others, with competitors such as Deepseek demonstrating that competitive models can be created with a fraction of investment. Turning point. The turn in its principles of AI, eliminating restrictions on military use and mass espionageIt is a good reflection of this transformation. Google argues that “democracies must lead in AI”, an veiled way of expressing their concern for Chinese competition. The turn in its philosophy also arrives at a very specific moment: China has just announced An antimonopoly investigation against Googleand the company He has just lost a similar case in the United States. And now what. The paradox is clear: the more Google grows, the more vulnerable it seems. The 7% drop in the stock market after exceptional results confirms it. Investors see in the investment plan not a muscle demonstration, but the confirmation that even the almighty Google fears for their future. In Xataka | Google Photos has more than 1,000 million users. But at first Google did not want to hear about the project Outstanding image | VORTEXMAN1234 With Midjourney

The Depseek online version has been publicly exposing users’ chats, according to Wiz. This is what we know

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It is easy to forget that the conversations we have with artificial intelligence chatbots (AI), such as Chatgpt either Deepseek, They are not completely private. Generally, the messages we exchange with these novel applications are used to train new language models and can be reviewed by company personnel in certain cases, as well as to address possible infractions of the terms of the service. Now, our data could go even further in case of a security incident. According to the specialized company Wiza Deepseek database ended up exposed during a certain period of time. The ruling allowed external actors to access a variety of data, such as chat history, records of records, sensitive information of the API and operational details. Let’s look at the topic in depth. Deepseek and an exposed database WIZ researchers, who have detected several vulnerabilities in services in the past as Microsoft bing and Oracle Cloudthey set out to evaluate Depseek’s security. “In a few minutes” they found a clickhouse database publicly exposed on the Internet. That is, you could access it without credential for any authentication. Clickhouse is an Open Source database management system developed by Yandex. The American security company team determined that the exhibition allowed the direct execution of arbitrary SQL consultations through the browser. It was something quite dangerous because the door opened to obtain internal data. After executing several consultations they discovered “very sensitive data”, among which were records of texts without format and a significant volume of user’s chat history. Wiz explains that among the code fragments they were numerous conversations. In lower screen capture we see a written message in Chinese, which translated into Spanish says: “Talk about solid propulsion rockets, covering its invention or discovery, historical evolution, relevance, components, principle of operation, functions and possible future advances . Desblossal in sections and provides details. ” The message in question should never have left Deepseek servers, a company that, like others to which we trust our data, should protect them. Wiz explains that it soon revealed the problem to Depseek, which quickly solved the failure. It should be noted that we have not found an official statement of the company, so we have written Deepseek to include your comments in this article. Deepseek is under scrutiny in Europe. The authorities of Data protection from Ireland and Italy They have issued information requests amid privacy concerns. The Italian organism, remember, He sanctioned Openai last year for not informing a data gap in 2023. Earl this week, Depseek said he was suffering a cyber attack, but did not provide details. Images | Freepik | Wiz | Deepseek In Xataka | Mac has been integrated antivirus for years: this is how this silent (and advanced) system called Xprotect works

What data can Google and WhatsApp give about their users after a court order, as in the case of the attorney general?

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The judicial case opened against Álvaro García Ortiz, attorney general of the State, continues to move forward to try to settle his responsibility in the leak to the media of Alberto Gómez Amador’s tax filepartner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. After the procedures to track the prosecutor’s telephone numbers and requesting call information from telephone companiesnow Judge Ángel Hurtado will ask WhatsApp and Google to help recover messages of the applications installed on García Ortiz’s two cell phones and in his email account. At the request of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, Judge Hurtado has ordered the issuance of a rogatory commission to the two technology companies so that they provide all the required data and know precisely if the prosecutor was involved in the leak. to the media about the emails between Gómez Amador’s lawyer and the Prosecutor’s Office. For this, requests WhatsApp for messages received and/or sent by the userchat backups and communication logs. Regarding Google, the judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court requests the data stored in the services and products linked to the accountbackups of linked devices, third-party applications, chats and communication logs, with crucial data such as date, time, origin, destination or type of communication. State security forces have the power to ask companies for copies of information that is related to an ongoing investigation. However, “access to these companies that usually operate or have their data outside the European Union is very limited,” according to statements to EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre de David del Olmoforensic computer expert specialized in mobile devices. Requests for rogatory commissions and judicial authorizations are usually slow, and according to the expert, “in many cases we will only obtain access data, but not the content of the messages, which is encrypted“. In that case it would be necessary to “perform a forensic analysis on the mobile device and then compare the data with the operator, if it wants to collaborate.” EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre has contacted representatives of Google and WhatsApp in Spain, but until the closing of this edition they have not made any statements and refer to their respective privacy policies. This is how WhatsApp manages In the case of WhatsApp, the Meta company ensures in your Help Center that “does not disclose the content of its users’ messages in response to government requestsand it can’t do that either.” End-to-end encryption “ensures that only you and the person you communicate with can read or hear what you send.” The text, image or video leaves the device sending it encrypted and It remains that way until it reaches the mobile phone designated as the recipient. Nobody, not even WhatsApp itself, can consult the content. Currently, when companies like Meta receive, through a court order, a request to inform the police or a judge of a suspect or accused in a criminal investigation, they can provide data such as name, contacts, active hours and other information, but never the content of the messages, which is protected with end-to-end encryption protocol. That information is only kept on the phone used or, if the user chooses, in the phone’s cloud-based backup associated with a Drive account. WhatsApp chats are end-to-end encrypted Unsplash Omicrono Government agencies send requests for user data to WhatsApp, more than 300,000 between January and June 2024 internationally, according to the latest report published by Meta. In the case of Spain, the figure drops to 3,100 requests in legal processes corresponding to 5,765 accounts or users, with 66.3% of cases in which requests produced some dataalthough these are not specified. To check if these requests comply with applicable laws and WhatsApp privacy policiesthe company “has a specialized and trained compliance team that reviews and evaluates each government request for user data, in order to determine whether the request was sent in the context of an emergency or as a legal process originating from authorities police or government”. Meta transparency portal report on user information requests Goal The Free Android If the mobile phone from which the communications were made is found, David del Olmo explains that, in the case of WhatsApp, the information “is stored in the local database on the device, so recovering deleted messages without access to backup is technically possible in some cases.” Everything will depend “on the appropriate tools, the level of encryption and the possible physical or logical limitations of the device.” This is how Google manages For its part, the Internet giant explains very clearly how it proceeds in these cases in the terms of service published on their website. “At Google we receive requests for the disclosure of information about users from public bodies around the world. We carefully review each of these requests to ensure that it complies with applicable laws,” they say in the section ‘How Google handles government requests for user information‘. Gmail Justin Morgan Unsplash “If a request asks for too much information, we try to limit it and, In some cases, we refuse to provide the information in its entirety. In the Transparency Report, we publish the number and type of requests we receive,” they conclude. Still, there is a nuance, since the response to these requests depends on which Google service provider is: Google LLC, being based in the US, is governed by US law, while Google Ireland Limited, the provider of Mountain View services in Europeoperates under Irish law. Every six months, and for the sake of transparency, Google publishes a detailed report on the number of government requests for user information and the number of accounts subject to these requests, which can give a reliable clue about the final result of the proceedings requested by the magistrate of the Supreme. In the last recorded period, from January to June 2024, Google received more than 7,180 government requests for information corresponding to 11,368 accounts around the world. Of all of them, In 85% of the cases (an average also applicable to Spain) data were … Read more

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