• The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    So they finally got all that sweet user location data they needed to create whatever their ultimate goal was. Probably some kind of population density map for military purposes.

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      8 hours ago

      Not even that. It could just replace GPS if mapped well enough. And there has been a lot of talk of stuff like that(GPS replacements). Part of my worry with TikTok which. I am naive and this is probably unfounded. But I worried if we got into a war China would flip a switch to expose just that using live data. Even if it’s anonomized. You know where hurts the most…

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        37 minutes ago

        GPS seems like one of the rare technologies that is working just fine as it is and hasn’t been fucked with yet, can we just keep it at that for once in our lives?

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          8 minutes ago

          You’re absolutely right, but unfortunately Hitler is in the white house and trying to ruin GPS for the entire planet.

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        1 hour ago

        If you mean doing stuff like using ground stations to triangulate location, phones have been doing that already. Why would Pokemon Go have anything to do with it?