Split from Google
On August 12, 2015, Niantic announced that it was being spun off as an independent company:
Niantic Labs is becoming an independent company [... with] new partners joining Google as collaborators and backers.[43]
As part of this operation, Google was to begin transferring user data to Niantic on September 11. Users would be able to opt out of this process.[44]
[–] nuworldblue 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)
Edit: Here is the relevant bit...