Niantic is an Alphabet company (f.k.a Google, Inc.). There's no need to worry, they already know everything about you
Yet another data gathering app.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-all-the-data-pokemon-go-is-collecting-from-your-phone
Niantic is an Alphabet company (f.k.a Google, Inc.). There's no need to worry, they already know everything about you
I saw lots of these guys today on my daily bike ride to the beer store.
Just made it to level 5, joined Team Valor & got my first potion at a pokestop
Actually they are independent. They started in the Google portfolio, but were spun-off and now it is an independent entity.
I'm wondering how long it will be before someone playing Pokemon Go either crashes into a car and kills someone or falls down a construction site and Nintendo gets sued. Should be interesting.
How are the Pokemon placed in space? Is it done by a human, or are they random, so that they could end up in someone's living room or in the middle of a lake?
Pokemon Go has full access to your Google account
Here are a couple of excerpts from the Google help page about what this means:
When you grant full account access, the application can see and modify nearly all information in your Google Account
This “Full account access” privilege should only be granted to applications you fully trust, and which are installed on your personal computer, phone, or tablet.
Let me be clear - Pokemon Go and Niantic can now:
Read all your email
Send email as you
Access all your Google drive documents (including deleting them)
Look at your search history and your Maps navigation history
Access any private photos
Pokemon? Didn't that already happen back in like 1996?
Another case where an old idea is brought back because no one thinks of new shit these days. I can't say I blame them. Why think when you don't have to?
Ok I finally read up a bit on this... this is actually a pretty neat concept... but oh man I can totally see idiots trying to play it while driving and stuff. lol. There's going to be so many accidents and stuff and people are going to blame the game, when it's really the users being stupid. I imagine PDs are going to have extra units out just to check for people trying to play while driving. Extra ticket revenue. Maybe
We should make a Deathrace 2000 clone. "Road kill five kids playing Pokemon Go to unlock Combine attachment."
Oh I know, I'm just bitching on a Monday morning. Don't mind me.
You could also argue movies in this way. Another Ghostbusters? Another Ninja Turtles? Why? They will -never- be better than the original, yet somehow they make millions. I guess I just answered my own question.
I saw lots of these guys today on my daily bike ride to the beer store. It was kinda disturbing to say the least.
There has been a death of a 15 year old kid:
http://nationalreport.net/teen-killed-trespassing-while-playing-pokemon-go/
So...
How long until Nintendo is sued?
People are already crying "gun control" and "racism" over the women who shot the kid. Idiots.
They collected crowd-sourced data to see where people cross paths so that they can identify common/public areas. That's why so many Pokemon gyms are at churches.How are the Pokemon placed in space? Is it done by a human, or are they random, so that they could end up in someone's living room or in the middle of a lake?
So... can you sell Pokemon for real money?
Can I start-up a Chinese Pokemon farming business?
It's not released in Canada yet. You bike across the border for beer?
Soon. All the Chinese farmers will spam the global chat soon.
Everyone is playing it at my Uni. So lame even the lecturers are playing it...
I can't even play it because I have 10MB DATA left on my phone.
I just look at my phone and pretend to play pokemon. I blend into the crowd hehe
but yh this game is going to get people killed. It's so obvious.
instead Pokemon fainted.. Trainer dies. LOL.