Pokemon Go

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  • Beeswax2

    Don't play it ! And beat people and smash their phones who walk by you with their cameras on.

    "Obviously intelligence agencies have gained a lot of info from google maps and its street view, but this data was collected easily with driving cars. intel agencies may see google maps and street view as just an outline or a skeleton of the whole picture. getting more data, particularly that off the street and inside buildings, requires tons of man hours and foot work. a logistical nightmare.
    enter Pokemon GO, where if you are an intel agency and you want photos of the inside of a home or business, you just spawn desirable pokemon or related objects there, and let totally unaware and distracted citizens take the photos for you, with devices they paid for, and those citizens pay for the experience.
    imagine all these photos going back to some database (with the augmented Pokemon removed obviously. all these photos are probably GPS tagged, as well as having the phones internal gyro embed x/y/z orientation of the camera angle in the phone. these photos could be put together, much like google street view."

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    • Yup.
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    • it makes a lot of sense. Entire cities will be mapped, even inside buildings. WE'RE SO FUCKED GUISE!Bennn
    • lol, if you think intel. agencies need pokemon go to track you, I've got a facebook, snapchat, watsap, instagram to sell youGeorgesII
    • Smart phone tin foil hatsApeRobot
    • Georges is missing the point. With pokemon go they can literally draw people to a certain position if they want photos of it.
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    • Pokemon GO is just another brick in the wall GeorgesBennn
    • It's brilliant. Now think about all the "herding" apps that will show up. Go here and get a *#, go here and....they'll be testing and testing to see what theyformed
    • can get people to do.
      So far, I think it's hilarious and great commentary on herds and society      formed
    • he is right.yurimon
    • Somebody read Snow Crash...zarkonite
    • so another brick in the wall, I stopped caring about those pseudo privacy issues once I understood that noone actually give a shitGeorgesII
    • pretty paranoid, brahsarahfailin
    • Soon people will say it's fine for a policeman to just wander in to thier house unannounced, because 'i've got nothing to hide'. No excuse for privacy invasion.
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    • privacy is a right. people not caring is just reaping what the collective sows. it will come back to bite.yurimon
    • No one wanna fight, sounds like dynamite, yo yurimon cuz yo rhyming is tight.
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    • Read "rainbows end". It has a scenario almost exactly like this, and what you describe about manipulating crowds of players.monNom
    • https://books.google…monNom
    • Politics in the Pokemon thread. Tite.BrokenHD
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