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‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots
(www.popsci.com)
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this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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Unknowingly?
Ingress was quite transparent about the goal of gathering real-world data to allows development of future technologies like self-driving and navigation.
It's the reason, why I started playing it around 2012.
Yeah I'm perfectly fine telling Big Data that where I walk is a walkable path or that the PoIs I pass exist there. There are just as many positive uses of that info as negative.
Most people just want to collect Pokemon and don't read up on what the company that made the app is doing.