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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 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 · 2 months ago

A company owned 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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Because it allows people’s data to be sold off. In other words, we’re the product.
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  Then the “yay capitalism” phrase can be applied to any digital product, and not just to this one then

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