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fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com to 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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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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    Just curious what they end up doing with any of the location data?

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      Ask Jamal Khashoogshi

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        *Khashoggi

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      I’d assume same thing they did with the data from Xitter. Track down arab dissidents and butcher them, then dissolve their remains in acid so no one can find their corpse.

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      Probably throw planes at you.

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