@hacks4pancakes I'm really not sure how the data from Pokemon go gets you much that you don't get from tower data. Sure, it's sensitive data, but it's a subset of various other kinds of sensitive data everyone is already leaking.
It's certainly less data than LE get through telecom portals, or companies buy off providers. Feels like Niantic is playing bad guy to get cash for selling mostly redundant data.
@quinn @hacks4pancakes The user location data isn't really useful, especially as the users go to locations they normally don't, because game events are happening there.
What *is* interesting are the pictures taken, that should be sufficient to create a fairly complete 3D world map to get very accurate location and orientation(!) information for camera pictures.
Specifically orientation is what delivery robots are struggling with, because GPS doesn't tell them, and magnetometers are imprecise.
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