Saudi Arabian government company is buying Pokémon go and 100 million players real time location data
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Pikmin Bloom too
Booooo. That sucks.
I was never into Pokemon before this app but this game was fun just finding new discoveries even in my own city.
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I don’t see as any worse, necessarily. For all I know, Saudi Arabia was previously buying the data from Niantic piecemeal.
Forbes, 2016: How Niantic Is Profiting Off Tracking Where You Go While Playing 'Pokémon GO'
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Business ethics? Meh, just profits, just profits.
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Business ethics? Meh, just profits, just profits.
Unregulated Capitalism.
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Saudi Arabia really likes to invest in dead tech.
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Business ethics? Meh, just profits, just profits.
Always has been, and nothing will continue to be done about it.
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I can't believe Saudi Arabia are nationalising Pokemon Go when the UK won't even nationalise regional water monopolies. Honestly these things were never great for privacy and given the state of things I'm not sure I'm more concerned about a Saudi entity tracking me than a US one.
Not good news for gay Pokemon fans in that country though.
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I can't believe Saudi Arabia are nationalising Pokemon Go when the UK won't even nationalise regional water monopolies. Honestly these things were never great for privacy and given the state of things I'm not sure I'm more concerned about a Saudi entity tracking me than a US one.
Not good news for gay Pokemon fans in that country though.
In the end all that changes is a Saudi company on NSA checks instead of a US one.
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Too much detail. Needs more jpg
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Too much detail. Needs more jpg
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First they came for my event pikachus, then they came for my shiny legendaries...
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I can't believe Saudi Arabia are nationalising Pokemon Go when the UK won't even nationalise regional water monopolies. Honestly these things were never great for privacy and given the state of things I'm not sure I'm more concerned about a Saudi entity tracking me than a US one.
Not good news for gay Pokemon fans in that country though.
Gotta catch them all!
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Waiting for them to further push monetization schemes. I'll bet on stat boosters and shiny rate enhancers for $$.
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OK so instead of tracking journalists with NSO spyware and murdering them,
they won't even have to install NSO anymore.
prepare to see news reports of many more mysterious murders, and obvious assassinations.
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lol this is a crazy
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Saudi Arabia really likes to invest in dead tech.
They don't care about the tech, they care about the data.
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They don't care about the tech, they care about the data.
You give them too much credit on this one. This decision was likely spearheaded by some nepo appointment who is out to diversify in the worst way. When your send cousin Johnny to college in the West, you're still not getting the best and brightest when he comes back. Whole structure of their investment fund is graft and bad decisions.
