Niantic and Google are (were?) not companies with very strong links to the Saudi Arabian government.
I've seriously reconsidered how much I use Google in recent months, but Google and Niantic aren't owned by a government that is incredibly repressive and discriminatory of people like myself.
Location data? Yeah, naively I was since I'd previously been fine with Niantic's work with Ingress. Hindsight is 20/20 though.