fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoSaudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Datawww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down16file-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.world
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minus-squarepatatahooligan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoBold of you to assume this wasn’t always the plan for Pokemon Go. A ton of online services are basically designed from the get go to be mass surveillance machines and the founders know they’re eventually going to be sold as exactly that.
minus-squarefitgse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoOf course it was. Niantic came out of Google with Ingress which was designed to collect data for Google!
minus-squareHudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoBut at least Niantic always identified itself as a data collection company and not as game developers.
Bold of you to assume this wasn’t always the plan for Pokemon Go. A ton of online services are basically designed from the get go to be mass surveillance machines and the founders know they’re eventually going to be sold as exactly that.
Of course it was. Niantic came out of Google with Ingress which was designed to collect data for Google!
But at least Niantic always identified itself as a data collection company and not as game developers.