well you didn't specify sir. and since you're being a doodie head i'm going to buy a thing that will spy on me, then i'm gonna buy an extra one for you and just throw it away.

are you suggesting i stop using the internet? the entire thing is being spied on.

go back to paper maps?

your ((((((((((((((legitimate solution))))))))))))))))) is to start being encrypted phones. wew.

lad.

see, now we're entering "i don't care enough" territory.

if i'm rich, i'll buy a yacht and a bunch of 18-year-old whores and sail around the carribean drunk/high... not spend that money paying corrupt politicians to temporarily stop fucking everyone in the face.

Why would they need the information on US soil?

I can understand if it was an international app, but why collect so much location data on the US?

Unless they want to know where all the dangerous areas are....

The conspiracy is not that a government agency created a video game. The conspiracy is that the game is to psychologically prepare the public to believe in either a demon or alien invasion- neither of which is true of course. In order to push a one world government, they need an enemy the entire world could unite against- see project Blue Beam.

This game is just preparing people's minds for that future false flag.

more like "i already have full-blown painful cancer all over my body, why the fuck would i care if i stubbed my toe"

i preluded my comment with "i feel ya" meaning i agree that it sucks. i was just pointing out the fact that sitting around bitching about it isn't going to fix it, and i doubt any faggot-ass voater is going to try to figure out a legitimate solution to it

but thanks for deflecting the blame of this situation to the one practical/sane/honest/logical person on this cancerfaggot circlejerk. it's totally my fault for not grabbing my sling and running down to the frontlines while you HEROES continue to protect privacy here in voat comments. 😂

In your first sentence, you wrote "John Locke" but I think you meant "John Hanke" (as you write later).

With how often people play it at workplaces of all types: it could be a great industrial espionage tool which could pick which targets end-users would photograph.

I don't doubt it at all.

At the same time, Snowden psi much covered all of this. They could already come out with some shit and say they are doing it and it wouldn't stop anyone.

PS go team Mystic!

I knew immediately when I first heard of Pokemon go that this was used for spying since google is involved,but I don't really care about that it's the closest I have to my childhood dream of having a pokemon. Plus you can't really blame the phone if the kids are addicted to it.

People report locations manually.

Its a good theory, we should continue to build on this.

As a side note, I think the blowback when mentioning this theory probably comes from the people who like the game, rather than payed astroturf. Which is even more ingenius, as they have intel and PR built into a single crowd-source platform.

It's a nice theory, but from what I've seen from the game, people take fotos of the ground....

it's like the google cars can't get into your backyard, so they pop some pokemons around your house and the first thing you do when you open the app is catch them.

Yep, the whole thing was incredible fucked up. She was abused for years by her parents, and she finally got to go on a vacation. She is a very nice person, but you can tell that all of the things she has gone threw has taken it's toll on her mentally.

I figured it was something like this.

Glad I steered clear.

To me it's just common to all these sharing based apps/games. Pokémon Go is more icing on the cake.

Interesting though.

A bunch of niggers, led by a wigger, already used it to rob white people.

At this point they have everything on you. Everything from your sleep habit to how many times you jack off a day.

You could even get multiple pictures in the same location at different times of day without sitting an agent in a van all day.  If you are a drug dealer and find a bunch of people snapping pictures on the outside of your house don't be suprised if their's a pokemon on your property.

Of course this isn't really for drug dealers. This is for forign embases. This isn't just in the US. I'm sure they are loving all the pictures they will get out of Europe.

Downside is a counter-intellegence angle. If you're the bad guy and are smart enough to keep up with pokemon-go (what vilian doesn't have at least one employee that plays the game), you can tell that your location is of interest and when it became of interest which has counter-intellegence value because you then get to consider how and when they came to knowing. Having a plain dressed agent go by in running clothes with no pokemon doesn't leak that you have intel on them.

So Niantic/Pokemon Go is basically a front for Geospatial Intelligence gathering, just like the former Ingress from the same company (which wasn't as hugely popular as the Pokemon intellectual property, basically every 90's kid with a capable smart phone is out playing this).

Your idea falls apart when you know that they use Google to get their data and Google already has that data.

If they need pictures for a specific area updated, they don't have to send any agents/employees. They just spawn a rare Pokemon and someone using the app will take some pictures for them...

Except these "rare" pokemon would be in areas where tons of people go every day which has tons of pictures.

I've had 2 random people tell me to get it tonight. Pretty interesting

Well, just following the money-trail alone already raises a few red flags. It's a very clever way of gathering intelligence, right from under people's noses that they willingly give.

Any sources for the company connections at the beginning? I'd like to spread this but I need a bit more dots connected before I feel confident in this one.

If nothing else, it's a data farm for GPS data that they probably sell off to some company, but it's almost certainly more than that. They're also shilling it aggressively as fuck on Reddit, but that could just be to push profits because the game has microtransaction.

Either way, this boring-ass game is cancer and I hope it flops soon so I can stop hearing about the shit and seeing people roam around like retards.

If they need pictures for a specific area updated, they don't have to send any agents/employees. They just spawn a rare Pokemon and someone using the app will take some pictures for them...

If they really did come up with that idea, you gotta hand it to them that is pretty ingenious. Don't get me wrong, I think it is pretty fucked up, but it is also pretty smart...