Laura Kalbag

The Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now They're Mapping You

Written by Cecilia D'Anastasio and Dhruv Mehrotra on Kotaku.

“Ubiquitous computing is still a fantasy, but not because the technology isn’t ready. It is. The fantasy is that any system mediating someone’s personal experience of the physical world that uses a modern corporation’s digital infrastructure would be objective or neutral. Humans are data and data is money, and this is the business model of many of the technology firms up to the task of ubiquitous computing.”

Read ‘The Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now They're Mapping You’ on the Kotaku site.

Tagged with: Niantic, surveillance capitalism, mapping.