"Consent obtained for a game is not consent for a weapons program, even if the end use turns out to be defensible."
They trained Visual Positioning System's (Drone navigation tech) on Pokemon Go data... that's really fucking messed up.
Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴
It’s not really surprising that people are becoming more distrustful and cynical about tech (and everything else) when there’s a constant drumbeat of stories, like this, about a seemingly innocuous game/tool/website harvesting data that is then used for murderous purposes:
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
