I’m a level 50 Pokémon Go player, who has played since release day, and that’s the app deleted.

Next up will be requesting removal of my data under GDPR.

Wow, level 50‽ (Now that I have your attention with my asshole opener…) Were you unaware of the last 10 years of Niantec/Google openly admitting that they were using camera and location data to train their models? Were you blinded by the fun of the game? Or did you just think the data you were uploading wasn’t that important?

I don’t usually buy the “but it’s ok if the company is American!!!” accusations because no corporation should be abusing your privacy, but I was just sitting here wondering why they think it is suddenly not ok if a foreign company is the one harvesting data.

I remember it being pretty big news when it was revealed, with government agencies making the app forbidden for their employees.

For myself, it is much more about the ties to Saudi Arabia given that the country and government aren’t all too happy with LGBT people.

The US government is well on its way to be the same.