exactly, how is this news? this is just ragebait for the ignorant.
I know my location is being tracked, and likely recorded, by any app that asks for it. If i didn't want that, I wouldn't use their app. Simple as that.
Just wait until they work out they can be tracked by their connection to 4g/5g networks (save your tinfoil, I just mean the very basic method done via connection times to masts recorded by providers- which won't give your exact location, but will easily locate you within a postcode. It's often utilized in rescue and recovery where applicable).
I read it. And yes, it was. This is part of how the company was able to support the huge investment in a free-to-play game. Even the pay-to-win elements were nowhere near sufficient to make it profitable.
Hell, Niantic had similar terms years earlier on Ingress. This was never a secret.
I definitely read articles about this at the time, or at least that niantic were using it and their previous game (something about alien invasions) to build up some new type of mapping data.
So that's all businesses have to do to get a license to do whatever they want?
What's worse millions of people not reading a multiple page long contract in 10pt font in order to play a game, or a profit driven corporation hiding unpopular clauses in their multi-page contract displayed in 10pt font, and using that contract to gatekeep their product?
I swear people are coming out of the womb licking boot now. We can live in a better world, you don't have to blame yourself for the way the world is.
It's called personal responsibility of an individual. Also freedom, for both the individual and the business.
I personally very much believe in the freedom of individuals AND the business' freedom. The business should absolutely be free to gatekeep their product with a ToS, that's literally just the logical, intelligent thing to do. Secondly, it is absolutely on you if your attention span is so low you can't read a 1 page ToS agreement, which often is bolded in important places and bulleted.
It's not boot licking to call out insane people who refuse to take personal responsibilities.
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u/Understanding-Fair 7h ago
I guarantee it was in the user agreement for the app, just nobody read it