niantic has likely been doing this shit for several years now across all their games, you should assume most things with location scanning are using that data for evil eventually
perhaps if outrage about this gets big enough the pokemon company will rethink who they work with (hey, we can hope)
Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again
dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
