Lots of movement happening lately in the Googlespere. The most recent news is from an internal company known as Niantic Labs. That is company/team that is behind the global phenomenon, and responsible for more battery bank sales than anyone else, Ingress. They were also the guys that brought us the discovery and learning app Field Trip. In an announcement today that graced Ingres players emails, and was announced by Google, Niantic Labs will be spinning into its own company out from under the umbrella that is Google. Here is the email many of you should have sitting in your inbox somewhere.
YOUR INGRESS ACCOUNT INFORMATION
We’re excited to share with you that Niantic Labs – the creator of Ingress and Field Trip – is becoming an independent company. You can read more about the announcement here. We’re looking forward to taking our unique blend of exploration and fun to even bigger audiences. More details coming soon.
To prevent any disruption in your gameplay, Google will transfer to Niantic Labs certain data that you agreed to share with Google for the Ingress app under the Google Privacy Policy, specifically gameplay information and your email address. Accordingly, we are providing you this notice that this information will transfer to Niantic Labs thirty days from August 12th, 2015.
If you do not wish to have this personal information transferred to Niantic Labs, please follow the steps at www.ingress.com/optout.
Please note that if you select “No†all your Ingress app data, including Achievement History, Game Progression and other Account information, will be deleted on or before September 11, 2015 and cannot be restored.The name and contact information for the new company are as follows:
Niantic, Inc.
Email: transfer@nianticlabs.comThank you,
The Google Team
Their email was a lot prettier than that poor copy paste attempt. For player of Ingress, you shouldn’t notice anything different unless you intend to opt-out of the data transfer. I do imagine there will be a change to the apps publisher on the Play Store though as they move to simply Niantic Inc. instead of NianticLabs@Google sometime after 30 days from today.
