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Comment by Brosper

6 hours ago

I think that only the author of this post didn't know that. Everybody know that Niantic is a big data company.

I didn't know, although I play Pokemon Go and the Wikipedia page for them doesn't say big data although it mentions "...been developing for years: the Niantic Real World Platform." as mentioned in the article although it sounds a bit of a work in progress. They make a lot of money as a games company.

Everyone in a very specific bubble

  • Even without looking it up to know for sure it was pretty obvious and could be inferred by anyone playing the game. Especially the scanning, which was painfully obvious to be a data collection method.