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 founded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.

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Yay, capitalism.
25 3 ReplyThe 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
19 1 ReplyReally feeling that free market...
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6 0 ReplyAnd what's so wrong in this particular case?
1 9 ReplyThe sauds are the last people you want to own anything you use.
5 1 ReplyI don't get how that's capitalism's fault though
1 4 ReplyBad people are allowed to do bad things as long as they have the money for it.
6 0 ReplyBecause it allows people's data to be sold off. In other words, we're the product.
6 0 ReplyThen the "yay capitalism" phrase can be applied to any digital product, and not just to this one then
2 3 ReplyNot any, but you're right, it can be applied to quite a few products unfortunately.
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Capitalism is the fault.
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