Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
A company owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.

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MonkderVierte @lemmy.ml Yay, capitalism.
23 3 ReplySippyCup @feddit.nl The scene in Austin Powers when he first comes out of cryo and assumes the communists won the cold war makes a lot more sense to me as an adult
18 1 ReplyGrammarPolice @lemmy.world And what's so wrong in this particular case?
1 9 Replyfxomt @lemmy.dbzer0.com OP
The sauds are the last people you want to own anything you use.
4 1 ReplyGrammarPolice @lemmy.world I don't get how that's capitalism's fault though
1 4 Replycool @lemmings.world Bad people are allowed to do bad things as long as they have the money for it.
5 0 ReplySuite404 @lemmy.world Because it allows people's data to be sold off. In other words, we're the product.
5 0 ReplyGrammarPolice @lemmy.world Then the "yay capitalism" phrase can be applied to any digital product, and not just to this one then
2 3 ReplySuite404 @lemmy.world Not any, but you're right, it can be applied to quite a few products unfortunately.
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raynethackery @lemmy.world Capitalism is the fault.
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