Conspiracy shared back in 2016 about the nefarious aims of the Pokemon Go game has turned out 100% correct.
Link to article where said bragging takes place
Over the past five years, Niantic has focused on building our Visual Positioning System (VPS), which uses a single image from a phone to determine its position and orientation using a 3D map built from people scanning interesting locations in our games and Scaniverse.
They have added a beginning preface which says the scanning is optional and users have to deliberately scan for data to be collected to train the AI with. But I wouldn’t be trusting the word of a company which received backing from In-Q-tel, the CIAs venture capital firm (who also backed Facebook with millions in funding). Especially considering the following from the video author’s original article on the story from back in 2016:
The original CEO of In-Q-Tel was a man named Gilman Louie. Louie received multiple awards for his work with In-Q-Tel – including CIA Agency Seal Medallions, Director’s Award by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Director of National Intelligence Medallion – which included investing in Keyhole.
Louie now sits on the board of directors of Niantic [the company responsible for Pokemon Go].
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has indeed built a “3D map” using data collected from players scanning interesting locations in their games. Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who previously received funding from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm
Sources:
https://www.networkworld.com/article/953621/the-cia-nsa-and-pokmon-go.html
https://tnsafety.com/from-spy-tech-to-pokemon-how-cia-funded-technology-birthed-a-gaming-sensation
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