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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data

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Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

A company founded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/7yc9S

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

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