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Saudi Arabian government company is buying Pokémon go and 100 million players real time location data (www.404media.co)
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[–] 66 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    While true, I felt (if misguided) more comfortable with my data under California data protection laws than Saudi Arabia.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    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.

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