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This data-mining game is what they call totalitarianism is how Oliver Stone described Pokémon Go at Comic Con. Earlier in the month Al Franken also expressed some concern asking the creator of the game about privacy, data sharing, and account access.
More from Stone:
They're data-mining every person in this room for information as to what you're buying, what you like, and above all, your behaviour. Pokémon Go kicks into that. But this is everywhere. It's what some people call surveillance capitalism. It's the newest stage. It's not for profit in the beginning, but it becomes for profit in the end.
It manipulates your behaviour. It has happened already quite a bit on the Internet, but you'll see it everywhere—you'll see a new form of, frankly, a robot society, where they will know how you want to behave and they will make the mockup that matches how you behave and feed you. It's what they call totalitarianism.
Personally I gave up my smart phone more than two years ago because I did not want a spy machine in my pocket; I've never played Pokémon Go but it seemed like a great way for the game creators to get people to run around and point the players camera at what ever they want, obtain other location based data, or focus players into businesses that pay for the privilege. Perhaps I just need to adjust my tinfoil hat but what do the 'lentils think? Is Stone just trying to plug his new movie or is this a legitimate concern?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @08:53AM
Personally I gave up my smart phone more than two years ago because I did not want a spy machine in my pocket
I've never owned a smartphone. I am way more hipster than you, wannabe.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by gringer on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:56AM
I'm still waiting for a flipphone smartphone with a free OS.
Ask me about Sequencing DNA in front of Linus Torvalds [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by cockroach on Saturday July 23 2016, @11:04AM
A non-smart phone with a free OS would be nice, too.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday July 23 2016, @07:38PM
What does that even mean?
If the phone isn't smart, then it has neither need nor capacity to use any OS, free or otherwise.
Now one could argue about degrees...e.g. "Does an FPGA count as smart?" and "What capabilities does something need to have before you call it an OS?" but those are only corner cases.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by cockroach on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:09PM
Imagine a phone from, say, 2005 (one that can do phone calls and text messages) with an OS that I can "git clone; make" and flash to the device.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:28PM
Start here. [oracle.com] ;-)
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday July 23 2016, @07:18PM
I'm not a hipster at all, but I only turn "location services" on when I need it.
Impeach Donald Saruman and his sidekick Elon Sauron