Ever played Pokemon Go? Well, then you agreed to all sorts of hidden and unimaginable conditions set by Niantic Spatial and thus most likely contributed to US military navigation, their drones and its AI system.

"Nearly 30 billion scans from Pokémon Go, taken by hundreds of millions of users, are now owned by Niantic Spatial, which spawned from the company that originally developed the game. With those images, it trained a 3D model that allows you to navigate very precisely if the gps signal disappears....At the end of last year, Niantic Spatial and the American company Vantor announced that Vantor will use the navigation system for drones and other military robots. Vantor is a software company specialized in spatial intelligence for, among other things, defense. This collaboration barely got any media attention."

Vantor is unsurprisingly denying everything, but several experts have concluded that it would be impossible for them to develop this system so fast without using the available Pokemon data at their disposal.

I'm not familiar at all with the game/app so if anyone has more knowledge or details feel free to share, but basically how it works is you have to make these "scans" when you see a so called Pokemon and then the data from your phone's camera which is apparently filming the entire region in 360 ° along with the GPS locations are then shared with Niantic, who then shared it with Vantor, who then in turn uses the data for military purposes and to train their AI. And all you got were some 🐶💩 in game rewards.

Now would be a good time to remind you that this is a kids' game. I mean, what can anyone even say anymore? These are the kind of things we imagine North Korea to do, except that it somehow always seems to be much closer to home.