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Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data (www.404media.co)
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[–] barkbarkbark@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Just curious what they end up doing with any of the location data?

[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ask Jamal Khashoogshi

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

*Khashoggi

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'd assume same thing they did with the data from Xitter. Track down arab dissidents and ~~butcher them, then dissolve their remains in acid so no one can find their corpse.~~

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Probably throw planes at you.