👾 Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data /// 404

What is happening here, then, is that an already very complicated and vast location data ecosystem that was previously controlled by only one American company (Niantic) has now become a far more complicated location data ecosystem controlled by an “American” company that is wholly owned by a Saudi Arabian conglomerate whose largest shareholder is the Saudi Arabian government.

I’m not smart enough to know how they can use and abuse the location data, but if I lived in or had any plans to visit Saudi Arabia I’d be nervous, given their lack of respect for human rights.