Yeah I’m perfectly fine telling Big Data that where I walk is a walkable path or that the PoIs I pass exist there. There are just as many positive uses of that info as negative.
Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots
Anaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Unknowingly?
Ingress was quite transparent about the goal of gathering real-world data to allows development of future technologies like self-driving and navigation.
It’s the reason, why I started playing it around 2012.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 days ago
SippyCup@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Most people just want to collect Pokemon and don’t read up on what the company that made the app is doing.