• Anaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours 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.

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      15 hours ago

      Most people just want to collect Pokemon and don’t read up on what the company that made the app is doing.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      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.