>>27611897 contAnd if you trust Niantic and Google and understand that they are in their right because we agreed with their terms and they just want to give us what we want (in the same way that your feed reflects your interests), consider that you have absolutely no tools to tell if this agreement is ever broken and your camera used for other means, for example. And even excluding that possibility, you have no way to tell whether a group of highly skilled people, anarchists as well as governments could break into their systems (or allowed within) and use these informations for other means. Their defense may be top notch, but then again, top notch attacks up to it could not be detected.
A government could spy on people through it, or even use it to make tests and gather even more data. For instance, Facebook could change a little number and have 10 million otherwise unrelated people receiving slightly more depressed things tagged "sad" "death" and see if the word shows up more and in which kind of people does it work, or if suicide rates increase. They can make trends, they can hype a certain fabric that could spike the economy of some south east asian country and profit from it. They can speculate about anything. Pokemon Go is just one more piece of this puzzle and I wouldn't be surprised if they are right now running ways to tag all of the Pokemon we catch, where we catch, what the camera filmed, where people like to go and so on.
Again, criticizing the game for being Pokemon or something is complete shit. It's fantastic that people are going outside and interacting to the world. These "zombies" would not be looking at the sky if Go didn't exist, but playing some other shit in their homes instead. Now, I love Pokemon and Pokemon Go is a dream come true, but I would be lying if I said I'm not worried and that this looks like an episode of Black Mirror.
