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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish26•1 month agoBold 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.
minus-squarefxomtOPlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoJudging by what they did with the data from Xitter, this will cost someone their life. Anything to make a quick buck, though…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoOf course it was. Niantic came out of Google with Ingress which was designed to collect data for Google!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoBut at least Niantic always identified itself as a data collection company and not as game developers.
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.
Judging by what they did with the data from Xitter, this will cost someone their life. Anything to make a quick buck, though…
Of course it was. Niantic came out of Google with Ingress which was designed to collect data for Google!
But at least Niantic always identified itself as a data collection company and not as game developers.