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Saudi Arabian government company is buying Pokémon go and 100 million players real time location data (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 day ago by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Sure but they're just buying a licensed property with a declining player base and leaving Niantic with the base tech and the drive to innovate. It's a dead end road where they're buying the "secure" part of the company but it's actually incredibly high risk because of how licensing agreements work. That's why I call it dead tech. They're not going to build anything out of it. It'll just decline. Perhaps quite catastrophically at that.