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How Pokémon Go players unknowingly trained military drones: ‘I was just playing a game’ (www.trouw.nl)

submitted 3 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1185607/how-pokemon-go-players-unknowingly-trained-military-drones-i-was-just-playing-a-game

Players of the game Pokémon Go scanned their environment for years for extra points. With the help of these billions of scans, an extremely precise navigation system has now been developed for military drones and robots, among others.

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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

Another reason games need to be open source! 🫤

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago

Pokémon Go’s parent company, Niatic received money from the CIA’s In-Q-Tel investment subsidiary. The Israeli military banned the game on bases when it was released. It was always a security hazard. Now it’s too late to do anything about it.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 5 points 1 hour ago

Ahh, so now they can more easily identify which schools to bomb.