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Comment Re:If it's free... (Score 4, Informative) 57

Niantic started life as an internal team at Google working on monetising location data. Being a revenue centre was the whole point from day one.

Only the "delivery robots" bit of this is actually news. Niantic being a datamining operation that tricked its users into scanning the real world for it is not. Hell Zuboff devoted a chunk of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" to it and that book came out in 2019.

Submission + - Satire is Dead (jpost.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Toronto International Film Festival withdraws Oct. 7 documentary The Road Between Us because filmmakers didn't receive permission from Hamas to use the attack videos.

Submission + - UK orders Apple to give it access to users' encrypted accounts (reuters.com)

Bruce66423 writes: Britain has ordered Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple's data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday.
The UK government's "technical capability notice" requires blanket access rather than merely assistance to access a specific account, the paper reported, citing unnamed sources.
Governments routinely ask technology companies for user data to crack criminal cases, but Britain's sweeping demand, issued last month, has no known precedent in major democracies, the Post said.'

Not even a reference to the need to protect children! Amazing.

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