"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.
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:
Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
