Pokemon Go sale to a Saudi Arabian company owned by govt comes with six separate corporate announcement blogs, not one of them directly addressing what happens to 100 million people's location data, AR mapping capabilities, or the AI maps they have been training:
https://www.404media.co/saudi-arabia-buys-pokemon-go-and-probably-all-of-your-location-data/
https://www.404media.co/saudi-arabia-buys-pokemon-go-and-probably-all-of-your-location-data/
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pok-mon-maker-niantic-selling-120000390.html
What about mapping tech around the game?
I'm in the same boat, watching our whole energy trade diversifying into China with a weird kind of optimism. They are, if anything, MORE dangerous because they recognize that the Russian/Trumpland conquest model is obsolete. They're making "friends" & cooperating their way to dominance.
And I…
…find I'm more comfortable with that shift from a big brother to a 哥哥 than I ever expected.
More than geography, China's appalling human rights record was the big thing Canadians couldn't stomach. But if America's crimes against humanity are shooting past them, we'd be right to reconsider that.
Because soldiers like Pokemon, too, turns out.
https://gulfnews.com/business/the-uaes-economic-diversification-strategy-plays-a-pivotal-role-in-shaping-its-future-juma-al-kait-1.500040674
Their lures are very different…and lethal.
That is some valuable and potentially dangerous information in the hands of state that had no problem vivisecting a journalist
He thought he was hunting for Bulbasaurs. He was actually teaching Saudi Arabia exactly where and when to abduct him
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/09/privacy-scandal-haunts-pokemon-gos-ceo/
I thought it passively for a while, but think it actively & emphatically since the US declared war on Canada.
(That's not melodrama; a #TradeWar isn't a euphemism or metaphor; it's a specific TYPE of war—still an international conflict with a cost of human lives.)
So glad I never trusted any of these IRL location based games. Always seemed like a cheap consumerist wrapper over a mass surveillance system
That game was a staple for me.
Do they need that to make fake locations or something?
to train them is my cause