Pokemon Go was a SCAM!

Citizen_404 · 2026-06-12T16:36:04+0100

You thought you were playing a game...what you were actually do was collecting data, potentially for military applications:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/...contributed-to-tech-with-military-drone-uses/

SylverReZ · 2026-06-12T16:43:25+0100

Calling it a "scam" is the wrong term. Scams are meant to defraud or mislead consumers. Collection of data isn't a scam, but a huge privacy concern for what they do with the data depending on what it contains.

Kwyjor · 2026-06-12T16:46:22+0100

Citizen_404 said:
You thought you were playing a game...what you were actually do was collecting data

No, everyone pretty much figured that out ten years ago.

See also https://www.ign.com/articles/no-pok...train-military-drones-niantic-spatial-insists .

Exnor · 2026-06-12T17:09:44+0100

Not a scam, a Trojan horse maybe. But by then Meta already did that with their apps.

Bladexdsl · 2026-06-12T21:12:04+0100

they wanted to make their drones like pokemon so the enemy must gotta catch em all

Jayro · 2026-06-12T21:25:27+0100

SylverReZ said:
Calling it a "scam" is the wrong term. Scams are meant to defraud or mislead consumers. Collection of data isn't a scam, but a huge privacy concern for what they do with the data depending on what it contains.

I wish we had laws banning unauthorized data collecting. Then we could just pay for these games.

Pokemon Go was a SCAM!

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