alt Hacker NewsI'm sure the CIA already has access. [1] People were raising privacy concerns years ago. [2]
[1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/953621/the-cia-nsa-and-...
[2] https://kotaku.com/the-creators-of-pokemon-go-mapped-the-wor...
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dgfitz • yesterday at 10:14 PM
Google maps has more data than PGO could ever hope to have.
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astrange • yesterday at 10:23 PM
People have a lot of strange beliefs about the CIA. Why would they even care about this?
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Hanke’s actually got awards from CIA for his work at In-Q-Tel investing in Keyhole/Niantic, so yeah, safe to assume that the agency invested specifically to have players collect data. Considering many Pokémon were on or near military bases around the world… not hard to assume what CIA’s real goal was.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/pokemon-go-trespassers-militar...