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’
While true, I felt (if misguided) more comfortable with my data under California data protection laws than Saudi Arabia.
Yeah, but we can’t have real data privacy laws in the US. Won’t you think of the shareholders?
They’ve gotten rich off of spying on you wholesale and selling the information to anybody with cash.
It would be rude and un-American to ask them to stop profiting off of morally bankrupt practices. Plus, they’d just say no and they own the government too.
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.
Next up, Saudi Arabia buys the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphone lines. Pokemon Go comes installed in the system partition for free with 1000 free PokeCoins, how generous!
and then absolutely everyone I talk to will do usual ‘oh it’s not that bad , you’re over reacting’ with the additional “I don’t use it but I still have it installed”
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.
Geocaching isn’t limited to a single app… Go find a geocaching website and punch the coords into whatever mapping app you use.
Business ethics? Meh, just profits, just profits.
