The CIA, NSA and Pokémon Go
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Before playing Pokémon Go, consider the data the game has access to, the history of Niantic Labs and its connection with the CIA and the NSA.
  • Pickleideas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 days ago

    It’s weird that everyone is dogpiling on Pokemon Go now. Its no longer owned or managed by Niantic & has had AR scanning completely removed

    • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Yup!

      Back then we knew it tracked stuff but didn’t think it would aid in drones or Covid.

      Pokemon Go was pretty dead in the US before Covid, which got some players back for a short bit. Now I think I might know 1 person that still plays, maybe.

      Pokemon Go is long dead so I don’t know why these journalists keep lecturing us.

      • EisFrei@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Half a billion in revenue in 2025 doesn’t exactly spell dead for me.

        The player base certainly shrunk, but I’m still seeing multiple groups of about 40 people walking around in my mid sized German town during events.

        • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          But revenue doesn’t equal player size. How much are they making by selling trainer data? How much of that is from trainers buying ingame items?

          I bet it’s still really big in Japan, but here in th US in 2026, you’d be hard pressed to find players still.

          • EisFrei@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            A quick Google says it’s about 30-40 million active players in a month.

            I still see a lot of active players, you don’t. That’s ok, our social circles might just differ.