Mobile app developers who aren’t already taking advantage of microphone-accessing permissions on smartphones will now be inclined to take a peek into how enabling the feature could bring bonuses, after the official app of La Liga, the Spanish soccer league, was revealed to be “spying” on users for an anti-piracy crackdown. Recent losses at La Liga reportedly amount to over €150 million ($177 million) at the hands of pirated broadcasts. Desperate times called for desperate measures, in the form of last week’s Android app deploying an update “to develop statistical patterns on soccer consumption and to direct fraudulent operations of the retransmissions of La Liga football matches.” The idea targets law-breaking bar owners, using microphones to “detect if what it…