wow.

[nik@aoir.social]

@aram secret life of data

[fentiger@mastodon.social]

@boksy This was the original point of Ingress (Niantic's first game). They never charged anyone a penny for it while they were part of Google, and it was well known that you were "paying" for the game by collecting data for Google Maps as you played.

[mzedp@plasmatrap.com]

@SheDrivesMobility@norden.social So did Captcha for that matter.

[sl007@digitalcourage.social]

@SheDrivesMobility

just btw; it was a 404 media research:
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/

[evoscale@c.im]

@SheDrivesMobility Will the drones have nanobots in them, to scan our caves because we can't breathe our atmosphere?

[ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org]

@SheDrivesMobility Military drones with information about civilian places, that's where they're going to be used.

[hazelnot@sunbeam.city]

@mzedp @SheDrivesMobility unfortunately with Catpcha shit people don't really have a choice

[aphowell@wandering.shop]

@SheDrivesMobility (takes long draw on cigarette) I remember when the Ingress players were upset to discover their data was being used as the basis for Pokémon Go.

[thriftwicker@mastodon.social]

@SheDrivesMobility LMAO.

[superdicq@minidisc.tokyo]

@SheDrivesMobility@norden.social And people always say I'm exaggerating when I say that using proprietary software literally kills people.