Something about this all makes me uncomfortable. Is anyone else feeling this?
A company is getting access to photos and location information of everything a person is doing and it can be used to herd groups of people into specific locations whenever it wants.
My friends are calling me paranoid and are saying "its just a game" but to me it seems like scary technology under the guise of a colourful, popular, kids game.
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Data mining is not new.
Portable cameras are not new.
If you honestly think the government or other organizations (private or otherwise) needs apps like these to view your phone camera/GPS location, you are a bigger idiot than the rest of them
The government would never do that. It's illegal.
They also get full access to your gmail account; can read any and every email.
And they can turn around and sell that information to other companies if they feel like it.
As well, if they're bought out by another company, that company gets all the info too.
It is spyware masquerading as a kids game.
you guys are fucking pathetic
>be a rural fag
>no neighbors within 15 miles
>go check on the horses
>see a black car coming down my private dirt road
>ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit
>gun is disassembled right now
>wave them down while gripping my knife
>windows roll down
>dank smell of expensive kush rolls out
>two slutty college girls with overpainted faces and huge tits ask for directions back to town
>they got lost looking for a fucking Snorlox on Pokemon GO
The NSA and feds don't need an app to do that. They've been doing it. Google's been doing it. Every time you access the internet you're giving away information.
I do think some kid's going to get shot or mugged at some point because of this game though. There will be a death because of this game.
Sounds like your a nigger with something to hide
Unfortunately nothing new
app 'permissions' dont really mean shit i guess they are just there to make you feel more secure.
It's made by an associated company of Google.
Of course it's being used to data mine.
Just like every other tech device is.
Nothing new.
Sell that data to companies and make even more money.
It's dishonest, but nearly everything tech related is.
>Not joining them and fucking them while getting high as fuck
dayum
im gonna go into town on friday and try this dumb app
>mfw all they would see from my data is Sup Forums and a bunch of messed up porn
>Something about this all makes me uncomfortable
It makes you realize that most people are just mindless sheep at heart. Ignore them and their latest fad and press on with life.
It's a rebranded version of Ingress. That game is around three years old now. Why were you not worried about that too?
Take your meds.
If you think pokemon go is what the spooks needed to get your info, then you're so far behind the game that you can't catch up.
phones could do that already
and the android OS only lets the app see limited information afaik
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Pokemon has a large following while Ingress is a unique IP.
People will play anything as long as it is recognizable to them.
>be late 20s
>single loser
>playing Pokemon go because muh nostalgia
>local mall full of pokestops
>every pokestop is full of little kids running around
>realize how bad it looks for a grown man to have his phone out taking pictures in a crowd of little kids
Am I going to be arrested Sup Forums?
You're just mad people are having fun with something new.
Go have fun and stop thinking everything is a fucking conspiracy. Jesus fuck, its designed to get people to spend money, not to spy on a bunch of neets gathering in a park.
You noobs never played Ingress. This game is nothing new.
But blah blah blah they're coming to get you.
Japan has finally taken over the world
Saw this on RT
Yes, but only for the crime of being white male. The left loves pedo acceptance, it probably has nothing to do with Muhammed.
Oh no, they can access my email? That's unconscionable!
we already know the government spies on everyone you moron
Wouldn't be surprised m8
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Ingress isnt really AR though
Whatever, they can access everything.
Which team should I choose? I'm torn between Valor and Instinct at the moment.
privat organizations obvious need apps like this.
government got their own tools and hardware implementation, but if some company wants to spy on you, they need to give you something worth for you using. with pokemon go some organisation, company or even mafia could gain a lot of data to mine. but i'm not familiar enough for this with the ties of niantic labs
Pokemon GO will save the west.
Majority of liberals are manchildren who just want to throw tantrums but now that thy have Pokemon GO to distract them, we won't have them crying about stupid shit.
It's like giving a pacifier to a toddler. Fucking little won't be crying for a while
>It's illegal.
KEK
>Koffing used Toxic Gas
>it was super effective
SPHERE ENCASED BATTLE RATS!!!
>Fuck you all faggots, sage in all fields
yeah meanwhile us adults can complain about black cocks on a chinese forum
>That moment when you realize you're the only person on the planet is not looked no one series "breaking bad".
the only thing that makes me uncomfortable, bong,
is that someone will probably die or get raped playing this shit and then either nintendo will pull ZE PLUG on the whole thing or severely cripple the game in ways that pokémon only appears inside your house and you don't need to leave.
your concerns are nothing but the worlds of a tea drinker lunatic, the goverment already gets your information by other means
zombie commanding is kind of new
Just wait until a van full of ISIS fighters rolls up to a huge group of people playing Pokemon GO and lights them all up. Imagine a couple suicide bombers in the center of one of those huge crowds with 100+ people all not paying attention to anything but their phones.
Its bound to happen.
t, NSA
of course
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How do you mean?
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the second portion of OP's sentence - herding people together by placing Points of Interest on a physical location.
Whats the difference in simply targeting an area thats already crowded like a stadium? Seems like a pointless effort.
It's not really a new concept but perhaps the first time it has been implemented in such a way successfully.
you could command all the pokemon go players in the area to a Soros demonstration to boost numbers, for instance
You mean like bars, restaurants, music festivals, watch partys?
Take off your Tinfoil hats, faggots
the three numbers agencies can certainly pull tricks by advertising a house party or something like that. Pokemon go's benefit would be a predictable response in followers
Fuck this bitch ass clickbait.
You fucking nigger go suck a dick!
double dubs don't lie.
Literally anything involving a phone with a GPS is automatically subject to a great deal of suspicion, and with good reason.
Of course, I trust Nintendo to be genuinely interested in nothing more than making money and making children's games, but the people that run the show as far as apps and your phone go? I wouldn't put it past them to pull some shit.
Just carry on as usual and give people weird looks when they play it and they'll eventually get that it's a little unnerving.
Just remember 2 things that apply anywhere you have electronics.
>If you jerk off, cum in the camera
>have something concealable you can kill yourself with at all times
Don't worry about fucking pokeyman
what kind of faggot are you?
Some kind of campaign needs to be started to have the developers put ultra rare pokemon in the hood, because it's only fair.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
CATCH POKEMON IN THE HOOD
The app itself isn't anything special, just a fad. Can't imagine that apple and co. don't already have whatever info the app collects.
What worries me is that it's being covered so heavily by the media. Is this being used as a distraction for something?
NEED POKEMONS FOR DEM PROGRAMS
Am I the only one who still is not interested in this shit despite having played the first 3 generations of pokemon?
I just don't want to be lumped together with all those mouth breathers, and pokemon in itself is for children, a bunch of mid 20s people playing pokemon is creepy.
Google already have all this information.
I own a windows phone and there are basically no decent apps for it, I have an android tablet but I don't use it.
the government already has access to your phones through backdoors you fucking retards, they don't need pokemon go
Who's the hottie on the right?
Muh dick.
The level "big brother" conspiracy theories surrounding this game is inane. All the supposed freedoms you think you're losing you actually haven't had for over a decade. Could some super spoopy entity use the data from Pokemon Go? Sure they could. But why would they when they can access the hardware that controls it?
>assuming your every call and text isnt 100% overt
>assuming any and all data cant be access remotely
>assuming your phones camera/audio is ever off
As if i give a shit, the CIA can know where i live and what i do, and they're free to check out my dick pics i have stored on my phone.
Everyone is a fucking normie you're not some special snowflake, unless you're a pedophile then you better go hide nigga.
Who's that nerd?
Kennedy and Monroes bastard child. You can see it in the teeth.
Don't forget to buy the latest DLC!
>Portable cameras are not new.
Portable cameras with a constant internet connection are relatively new.
fuck the gov might find out me and my boys went to the local post office to catch virtual pokemon
your post kept me posted and really made think man!
Can I use this technology to ogle at teenage girls then go home and masterbate to them somehow?
like youre not doing it already
>meanwhile in Pokeland
>its just a game
I read yesterday that the head of the company that published Pokemon Go got founding capital from the CIA. Apparently they are interested in the development of mapping techniques.
Your friends are naive.
It's really ingenious whoever thought of this shit. Get millions of people out taking pictures of places you are interested in mapping, then use captchas to disseminate the pictures for free.
I was excited when I first heard of it but when I found out its all pay to win with no leveling I lost all interest. I don't get the whole craze if people are just in walking around collecting pokemon if you can't trade/battle other people with them. As for "spying" on you, they aren't getting anything from you that every other app isn't already tracking
This proud, black man gets it.
There are actually adults playing this game?
Jesus christ. Kill yourselves.
I thought this game was not yet out in Germany, but yesterday while waiting at the bus stop, I saw four nerds smurfing down the sidewalk, heads over their smartphones. They got all excited and jumped up and down next to an empty bush nearby. "YES! YES! I'VE GOT IT!" Then they wandered onto the street without checking for traffic, heads still over their phones. It was their luck that the bus was 2 minutes late, or they'd have been under it.
>ftw mobile to old
So dunno, saw out of my window yesterday a grown man only looking on his handy and walking around. You think something really bad will happen with this app soon?
it got released today in germany and the campus was full of these numales walking around catching pokemon
i even heard a guy a row behind me say 'oh theres a Flareon' and than he walked out of class and came in 10min back...
>if it's free then you're the product
here we go guys. nintendo drops a rare pokemon at your local mall. you're a faggot that plays pokemon so you obediently go to the mall. then sure enough a fucking 20% off coupon for macys hits your email. they're getting fucking good at this shit.
Lurk more you dumb fuck.
It's not like Google didn't have the power to do this before.
If your'e an adult playing pokeman go, you have bigger problems than surveilance
This fucking guy gets it
>Oh look there's a rare pokemon in Disneyworld, that'll be worth the $200 entrance fee
google just collects information. pokemon go is literally controlling people's movements.
...
not exactly sure how this game works. could someone actually do something like this? like go collect a bunch of pokemon and then set them free outside their house?
>worried about pokemon
>not worried about google
(notices brit)
>not worried about cameras on every street corner
I think you can set lures that will attract real players to the pokemons.
Niggers in the ghetto around St. Louis are using it to bait normies into the hood to rob them.
Yep. I'm not getting it, and I avoid getting into the camera view when people are playing.
I recommend everyone does the same thing.
Relax, it's not like they're gonna herd you into the gas chambers Goldberg-Stein.
>A company is getting access to photos and location information of everything a person is doing
dozens already doing this
Wait...no one plays it in Kiev?WTF.
Will this game change society?
Nahh. It's likely a passing fad that will be forgotten in a couple of months.
>"Dein Gerät ist nicht mit dieser Version kompatibel."
>be Election Day
>all liberals playing Pokemon Go
>polls open in morning
>ten minutes before they open, all phones buzz
>"Shit it's a Mewtwo!"
>Everyone runs around to find the legendary pokemon -- leaving the lines at the voting booths
>all convene in the middle of the ghetto
>eventually one of the people catch the pokemon
>look at their watches
>10:00pm
>polls closed
>Trump wins in landslide
>white liberals collapse in tears
>blacks chimpout
>mexicans take out tortilla to wipe the sweat from their forehead
>images of the God Emperor appear on all television screens as he celebrates
>a song plays as he walks out onto the stage
>"I want to be the very best, like no one ever was..."
> Lure people places
The lures can only be dropped on Poke-stops. Just avoid the ones that are in dark / shady places at odd hours.
> Scary Tech
The reports and photos of unlimited access were "only a bug" according to the developer. Only reason it's believable is that is only happened on iOS phones, android users never had to give up that much info upon download.
On top of this, there were many fake programs with backdoor's and malware released. Since the game debuted in some countries first it gave people in other countries a chance to fake it and rush it out so all the kids that couldn't wait for it downloaded the fake virus.
It's not bad, it's just a game.
Yes they most likely will sell the information they can get to Geo-spatial government agencies, but that will help our Military. :^)