I don’t see as any worse, necessarily. For all I know, Saudi Arabia was previously buying the data from Niantic piecemeal.
Forbes, 2016: How Niantic Is Profiting Off Tracking Where You Go While Playing ‘Pokémon GO’
While true, I felt (if misguided) more comfortable with my data under California data protection laws than Saudi Arabia.
As a European, I never feel comfortable with my data under any US state’s data protection laws.
Pikmin Bloom too
Booooo. That sucks.
I was never into Pokemon before this app but this game was fun just finding new discoveries even in my own city.
Luckily geocaching is still a thing!
Too bad it is $30/year for the app to work.
Geocaching isn’t limited to a single app… Go find a geocaching website and punch the coords into whatever mapping app you use.
I thought it was all through groundspeak.
Nope! Geocaching was a thing long before phone apps were a thing.
I used to geocache back when i had to get coordinates from geocaching.com and put them into my Garmin handheld gps. But I had gone looking for a cache my dad found on accident while camping and to view it on their website we had to have premium. Same thing with almost all of the caches around my town and surrounding county.
Are there sites other than groundspeak’s geocaching.com? I searched DDG last night and everything was an article about geocaching and lead back to geocaching.com or was geocaching.com.
I have considered looking into letterboxing, a friend used to do that while i geocached, but I never did it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching
Started officially in 2000, coinciding (but not by coincidence) with a more-accurate GPS network. Long before what would now be considered “smart” devices (Palm Pilot, Handspring Visor, etc) had any sort of GPS abilities. You had to have, or know someone who owned, a handheld GPS device.
Street Complete lets you walk around and answer questions that go to OSM
OK so instead of tracking journalists with NSO spyware and murdering them,
they won’t even have to install NSO anymore.
prepare to see news reports of many more mysterious murders, and obvious assassinations.
Business ethics? Meh, just profits, just profits.
Unregulated Capitalism.
But it’s “just business”. You can’t blame them. That’s the get out of jail free card, often literally.
/s
I can’t believe Saudi Arabia are nationalising Pokemon Go when the UK won’t even nationalise regional water monopolies. Honestly these things were never great for privacy and given the state of things I’m not sure I’m more concerned about a Saudi entity tracking me than a US one.
Not good news for gay Pokemon fans in that country though.
Gotta catch them all!
In the end all that changes is a Saudi company on NSA checks instead of a US one.
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First they came for my event pikachus, then they came for my shiny legendaries…
Waiting for them to further push monetization schemes. I’ll bet on stat boosters and shiny rate enhancers for $$.
