A company owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.
  • patatahooligan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    262·
    2 天前

    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.

    • fitgse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      71·
      2 天前

      Of course it was. Niantic came out of Google with Ingress which was designed to collect data for Google!

      • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 天前

        But at least Niantic always identified itself as a data collection company and not as game developers.

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 天前

      Judging by what they did with the data from Xitter, this will cost someone their life. Anything to make a quick buck, though…