Overview

• Spain’s Fiscalía General del Estado confirms in its 2024 report that a data transfer during the switch from Telefónica to a Vodafone–Securitas consortium left courts without historic device records needed in quebrantamiento proceedings.
• Judicial bodies say they first flagged incidents on July 10, 2024 in Granada and sent formal notices on January 8 and February 21, 2025, with another from Galicia on February 27, according to the CGPJ’s Observatorio.
• Magistrates report persistent geolocation errors, false locations and frequent device replacements that forced extra verification and led to acquittals or provisional dismissals, though they stress police vigilance and say victims were not left unprotected.
• The Ministry of Equality and the Prosecutor’s Office maintain the devices operated and note no woman was murdered while wearing one, yet the ministry has not detailed how long the data-access gap lasted or how many cases were affected.
• The government says it will launch a new procurement ahead of the 2026 contract expiry with tougher conditions and better data access, as opposition figures and Madrid’s regional government demand full transparency and the minister’s resignation; more than 4,500 women use the system, including about 1,710 in Andalucía.