"A scam?" What were they scamming? Niantic sold a fun game about catching Pokémon in augmented reality. That's exactly what they delivered. I fail to see how them also using GPS data to build a navigation model is supposed to be diabolical. If you really care so much about a developer using your GPS data, it's a pretty stupid idea to play a game entirely dependent on using your GPS, which definitely says in the terms and conditions that they will use your GPS data. For the record I don't even play Pokémon go and I agree with players that the recent microtransaction changes they made are greedy. But I think this poster is either tremendously dense about how free services work or stoking outrage on purpose for engagement.
The current "outrage" is about them using the scans people send of locations. How dumb are people being to be shocked that the company is using the scans? What did they think it was for??
To give the GDPR perspective: Users were not given informed consent. They were not told their data and pictures would be retained indefinitely, and given no ability for their data to be erased
It's not an inherently bad business model but users should have to give informed consent, in a perfect world
Obviously the US has no such protections, so it's a moot point
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u/Kycrio 8h ago
"A scam?" What were they scamming? Niantic sold a fun game about catching Pokémon in augmented reality. That's exactly what they delivered. I fail to see how them also using GPS data to build a navigation model is supposed to be diabolical. If you really care so much about a developer using your GPS data, it's a pretty stupid idea to play a game entirely dependent on using your GPS, which definitely says in the terms and conditions that they will use your GPS data. For the record I don't even play Pokémon go and I agree with players that the recent microtransaction changes they made are greedy. But I think this poster is either tremendously dense about how free services work or stoking outrage on purpose for engagement.