You thought you were catching Pokémon. Niantic was catching something else — 30 billion scans of the real world, fed into a military drone navigation system via defense contractor Vantor. They cleaned the PII to stay legal, but all the spatial data from all those hours catching pokemon? It can make drones fly without GPS? That survived just fine.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/what-were-you-really-doing-playing-pokemon-go

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