@@Rumo_Notna it is, if you can’t compartmentalize your thought experiments properly. If by thinking of them it infects your worldview in a detrimental manner you should probably do the abstract thinking in more safe domains and let others feel the edges of the world.
A lot of people think the sound of freedom is an exaggeration when it’s barely scratching the surface. To recognize the reality would cause them a type of pain that they prefer to avoid by camping down the truth.
Found my one and only Lapris at a capitol building when it showed up randomly in a park connecting. An area I had never seen a rare spawn like that ever
When it first came out my husband said the same thing, and included all those "free" games that get kids to record their voice or take a picture of their digital pet "irl" ...all of it is just data collection, because if the game is free, then you are the product (as in your data)
Not to brag, but when I first downloaded it and it wanted my location, my camera, and everything else. I was like, "yeeeaah, no, this is some kind of government/military trap."
Funny part is this wasn't the first time that the company that produced it made a "game". Pokémon go is based off of an older app. I don't recall what the name of it is, but either way, yeah, they have a decade plus of data that they can pull from.
@@jamesbuckner4791 Their first game is called Ingress. I signed up for it but never actually used it or Pokemon Go. I liked the concept at first but quickly realized I'm far too lazy to actually run around town with smartphone just to play a game.
I've been saying this forever. The idea behind Pokémon GO came from Google and when the game exploded in popularity I immediately suspected military use.
People will actually be controllable like Sims. It can happen to anyone seriously they basically give you an aneurysm rhen map you're brain even change your looks by doing so it's weird .
I love how the process to spawn your buddy in the camera is literally like "Scan to the left... now more to the right... back up... ok now hold still..."
@@YeshMCx The spawning of your buddy has sometime just a few months ago even worked without a camera at all. That was faster, more convenient, and it was just on a black background then. After before having required what you just said. Im not sure thats included in the data sent to them because only 1 million a week? there are 90 million active players. And if you play actively, you would summon your buddy at least twice, maybe up to 3 times a day. I think its talking about the scans of arenas which you can scan each othem every day. That gives some rewards and levels up the arena for you which im not 100% what that does but for that you actually capture video which is then sent to them. It might be only that.
This was publicly announced like almost ten years ago when the game came out even before then it was a game called ingress and it had that stated goal and was voluntary. This has been going on since forever. it's called photo stitching and metadata.
In 2017, Pokemon GO saw a ban in Mainland China, with the reason sited pertaining to the game being a risk to national security, as well as the safety of consumers within the country. Doesn't sound so crazy now ain't it.
I also called this. First time I saw people walking around with their cameras live as they played the game, I said "i wonder whos storing all that data?". Gold mine.
As a PoGo player for several years, I knew it was a tracking and data collecting app first, Pokemon game second. I think a lot of players knew. I personally didn't care, because other apps on my phone were doing similar already. I always imagined the data from location scans would go towards some type of AR technology, that was a big aspect of the game through mobile device based AR interaction. I believe there is a bit of misinformation in the video, in that location scans were not happening all the time, everywhere. The location scans were at specific pokestops, and you had to consent to start a scan. A user would get a bonus as a result. For a time you could cover your camera and send in just black footage. Mostly I'd scan the ground. That said, people use their AR in their homes and such all the time. Niantic has another game where a player cannot turn AR camera access off at all. I stopped playing this year when I wouldn't agree to Niantic's updated ToS. Taking consumers' rights away to class action lawsuits was the line for me.
@@Yamaazaka and we all needed those portable charging banks to play longer xD we were paying extra to let the gov get us to map ourselves for longer lmao
@@sgjoel Sometimes a lot of extra- I made $480 in one night just by having 2 portable car starters in a wagon connected up to 4x20ft usb cables charging at 5a. I loved it the most when desperate people would pay for 20 minutes and then use the phone while it's charging because I knew they would be back again soon.
The battery drain wasn't really any worse than using something like Google Maps or Waze. It shouldn't be surprising that constantly calculating your location from incoming GPS data uses your battery.
They don't, they just give you missions to scan the places they want scanned. The rewards pretty good, too. It's not a secret function, you have to actually start the scanning function, it's explicit in-game.
For the numerous quests saying take 5 pictures of a water pokemon or whatever, people probably took pictures of paperwork on their desks or all kinds of stuff.
All niantic games, including monster hunter now which has gained a lot of popularity. That explains their gotcha model, anyone dumb enough to spend 5-8 hours a day on these apps will be dumb enough to spend a ton money on them.
Yeah. I wondered whether any software that uses voice recognition can map your voice and then allow you to be tracked via any device with a microphone connected to the Internet. It would be very surprising if something similar wasn't being used with facial recognition and social media.
Sometimes, but some theories are just too stupid. I can't even hear the 5G stuff anymore from people who have obviously no idea how the real world physics work
@@SterileNeutrino Sure, I'm exaggerating here. Given what we've seen over the past few years from governments, I now keep an open mind towards any so-called "conspiracy theory" that isn't obviously stupid like 5G towers will remotely mind control us, or the literal Lizard People are the true controllers of our world.
@@SterileNeutrino and the question here is , do you ? do you really ? Otherwise just crank the volume in a manner of speech. It's not like microwaves are imaginative.
@@SterileNeutrino If you mean, mobilizing magic nanobot cyber armies in people's bloodstreams - ok. But the density of 5G cells is much higher than previous tech, and use beam-forming via phased array antennae to direct the power towards an end point (e.g. phone). In normal functioning, such cells negotiate who has the best sight to target and will be connected. But one _could,_ if one wanted, direct all towers in reach towards the same target & crank up the power. I wouldn't want to have my head there, even without calculations. It also seems convenient that one knows which target phone belongs to which person of interest.
From the Niantic article which you haven’t pointed out (I don’t think at least): “Editor’s note: We use player-contributed scans of public real-world locations to help build our Large Geospatial Model. This scanning feature is completely optional - people have to visit a specific publicly-accessible location and click to scan. This allows Niantic to deliver new types of AR experiences for people to enjoy. Merely walking around playing our games does not train an AI model.”
Yeah right! Everyone that has ever played knows that a HUGE part is using your camera to create an 'augmented reality' on the screen so that you can find the Pokemon.
So the game gets insane amounts of value out of people playing the game, burning their data plans sending a bunch of information that doesn't benefit players over the network and they _still_ have to pay microtransactions? That's scary _and_ greedy.
You don't have to pay microtransaction in the game. It's not like you can't advance in the game if you don't pay microtransactions, like in DCUO Online or Destiny 2. I mean you can say that's egregious and very greedy for asking for microtransactions after collecting all this data but don't say "oh you can't play the game if you don't pay for microtransactions". Do you even *know the difference* between having to pay for a microtransaction (or just anything in general) and not having to pay for that??? And no, I can't really believe I am defending that game after watching this video and after the fact that I stopped playing the game for like 6 or 7 years.
What’s most frightening to me isn’t that they are doing this. It’s that even if the public fully knew about this the overwhelming majority wouldn’t even care. The level of control and compliance is that complete. This is what they ADMIT they are doing. One can only imagine the horrors that they are responsible for.
Meanwhile Russian disinfo and troll farms are actively poisoning the well of political discussion and it's leading to the far right taking over europe/usa. Everything is out in the open, nobody even cares.
@@GunShark0 Not really. She tried to be hip and cool to appease the youth while failing miserably. Not even the sitting President of the US knows about everything that is going on in the CIA. They are the most autonomous three letter agency in the US.
Its crazy how people gave away their privacy for absolutely nothing in return. Their entire lives are online. Its not going to end well when it comes to freedom.
I worked a security route driving job when the game came out. All of our clients were just local business, but even for them this game was a security nuisance. The first week or two I kept finding random kids inside properties trying to catch pokemon at like 3 a.m. I can only imagine what it was like in places with more sensitive locations around.
It's not about spying on you. It's about using you to do the work for them. Of course they want to do 3D mapping. They would prefer a complete mapping of the inside of every building and every indoor and outdoor space in the world of they can get it. Think about how SOME police departments train with VR using a map out of the house before they raid a place now. Why would an intelligence agency not want a accurate spatial VR map out of the entire world? It's not about the people using it, it's about using them to do the work of mapping.
You realize you basically just said, it's not about spying on you, it's about you doing the work so they can spy on everyone in the world (which would include you)
The "amazing" thing with government agencies, in particular intelligence, is that they have absolutely zero limit in terms of ethics. Anything goes to serve their goals, in a fully opaque way. In the "normal world", those guys would be called psychopaths. Interestingly, when you get paid by tax money, somehow you seem to become entitled to act like a psychopath without any consequences except possibly a bonus when you've done something exceptionally unethical.
@@YearOfTheSwagon 'Hello sir I have received a massive inheritance from my Nigerian prince brother, Please freely hand your data to me' Is your logic still following?
The Watergate burglars should have offered to give high fives to democrat insiders who talked about what was going on. Which is basically what Pokemon Go did, they offered really trivial non-monetary rewards.
@@bp6942 yeah, it was done without his knowledge and there was a whole recorded phone call where he's raging a the people who did it after he found out.
Pokemon Go, Tik Tok, social media, music, movies, damn. Turns out me slowly thinking everything society does is stupid and losing interest in media while not participating in anything new on top of it might make me off-putting to the average person but it sounds like I participate in about at least 45% less psy-ops than the average american.
This is my thinking as well. Every year I give up the internet for lent (as much as I can at least, so no recreational use but work-related things are okay). After a brief "withdrawl" period it's a very quiet and peaceful time.
everything in the economy is gearedntoward progress toward a great "something", in tandem with this sort of operation, what is this "something" they are building? such data aggregation could be used for awesome machines
Not surprised at all as I remember wondering WHY a video game was being made by a company with Intelligence company connections. I thought it was incredibly strange.
I lived in the bay area of California when Niantic released some precursor app to Pokemon Go, around 2013, and I said it was a CIA asset to my friends because there were obvious trails between Niantic and the CIA. Glad to see a video on the topic.
@@XBret64It wasn't way more fun that PGo. I tried after playing PGo and I had absolutely no f-ing clue what I am even supposed to do in that game or how it even works. People say that Pokemon Go graphics are terrible but they never tried Ingress. PGo is more more intuitive, you understand what you have to do right away. This is why Ingress never took off. Actually, before Pokemon Go I never heard of Niantic or Ingress before.
I was immediately extremely suspicious of temu once it started appearing literally out of no where and suddenly being super omnipresent in so many ads. Same with Tiktok, then I learned about all the data these apps collect from you, it's actually bordering on mind control
@@johnwayne3904 Sell cheap garbage to gullible people. China claims "developing country" status with NATO, so their merchants don't have to pay a single dime to export products. Meanwhile, shipping something _to_ China costs a small fortune. The Temu merchants capitalize on this by shipping people garbage products knowing they won't pay $75 to return something they bought for $10.
"There's no way they are bypassing the controls". They don't need to. The game asks. And the users say yes. As far as all the photos/videos of real-world locations - their first game, Ingress, flat out asks you to take a walk-round video of notable locations with GPS traces recorded as you do it, and upload the video. You get a (really mild) in-game reward for doing so, and it's well known in the playerbase that this is obvious data collection used for understanding the 3D world from 2D recordings -- exactly what they are describing here. And ... loads of people do take those videos and send them in. I'm willing to bet that's the primary datasource for what's being described here.
This is exactly what I came to say, it's all good about the pokemon go stuff because they released it after and it changed the way approach as to how to motivate the players to move around and capture data in regards to ingress but the OG "algorithm" that was 100% location and territory based is clearly way more relevant.
this same feature was implemented into in PoGo as well. when this feature launched like 2 years ago, i was instantly very concerned what this data was being used for. obviously the DoD was right for banning this app on bases and such
I don't know why this is so surprising. Niantic has always made it clear that their business is about the data collection. They make a lot of money off of in-game purchases, but they always made it clear their major business model was collecting and selling this type of data.
Not sure if Pokemon Go does the same thing as Niantic's Ingress, but that game has a badge to earn for "scanning a portal," which is a 360 video you upload of where the "waypoint" is located. I didn't even put the two things together until I had this video recommended.
@@alinamhensleyExactly. I was playing Ingress back in 2016 but gave up a year or so ago. I was telling a fellow agent that the difference between the two would be that Ingress gets a lot of dashboards being recorded 😂
@@alinamhensleyyep, the only difference (for a while) is that Pokémon go had the more significant AR aspect. Now, of course, ingress has it too. But I refuse to use it for a lot of the reasons in the video.
From the article’s wording, it seems that they are only scanning when people choose to scan a landmark (or whatever they call it in Pokemon Go). Still creepy, but it doesn’t seem like they’re admitting to be always scanning and uploading the data.
Don’t lump Apple in, they have evil plans that do not agree with the govt. How can you forget when the US govt literally had to force Apple to give them access to iOS devices owned by terrorists because Apple didn’t like the precedent set by allowing a backdoor for any reason.
@@Zagar099 He isnt in hiding. And he did nothing wrong. Nothing you could do to expose ANY secret government documents could ever be wrong, no matter what is in them. You already paid for the compilation of those with your taxes, you ought to be able to read them and do whatever the heck you want with them. No exceptions.
what, did you think our government would stop spying on us? they will never stop. if they can get away with something, they'll always do it, no matter how reprehensible it is. if they can't get away with it, they'll condition the masses until they can get away with it. they've got most of the nation fighting for a mother's "right" to kill her child. if that includes you, open your eyes for a moment and ask yourself how you let the world convince you of something so crazy. 100 years ago there would have been bloody revolution if the government sent taxpayer dollars to the likes of a baby killing corporation.
I think these bring up big 4th amendment violation concerns. If you need warrant for cop to be in home why is cia allowed to map the square inches of our house?
Basically they want a system where they can ask an AI "where is this guy" and the ai using the most recent accurate information, it can pull up this guy's precise position in the world (virtual space version)
@piotr78 well the AI is simply for the computational portion of the system. All the data is gathered by the ppl. Think of the AI like a borderline perfect GeoGuessr Player. The information is supplied by the people through their phones (so pictures, elevation, gps, local sounds, all sorts of data). The AI just compiles all the data to figure the exact location, much faster than any human could. Its a small portion of it thats AI but its also the heaviest workload task.
In 2016, I was in a certain country in a certain conflict and I was told multiple times by the same person that works in the local military/government that Pokémon go was this greatest CIA project or game or something some words along those lines, he would say “imagine walking down the street and there’s a Charizard in a suspected Ammo Depot that we have well you can go in there and take a picture and now they have that picture” and yeah now they’re probably building a 3-D map of all these pictures… and Pokémon go just came out maybe a year prior and I remember walking and seeing people on the streets of this certain country seeing them playing Pokémon go and that’s when these conversations would pop up and because this person was very high up in the the local military government so he would stop people in street as we walked around and inform them of this so that’s how I’ve heard this multiple times and now to hear this your video in 2024 is just hilarious and absolutely confirms this for me since 1st heard this so long ago.
This remember me the Batman movie where they have access to all the mobiles and were able to create a real-time image of all the world. That scene in the movie just blew my mind, this is just scary.
And how they decided the tech was to evil so hid it from the world.. We live in a world were a Batman movie has more ethics than our own Government and Corporations..
This is actually a game feature where it sometimes asks you to scan specific landmarks, if you do it you get bonuses. It's not secretly running like in The Dark Knight.
One thing to note, they mention they are getting their data from "scans" that have hundreds of images. This sounds less like normal photos taken with a pokemon and more like the "scan" feature you intentionally opt into to power up a pokestop. There's a disclaimer when you start that mentions it's sending info to Niantic. I don't have a reason to believe they *aren't* using normal photos, but their story does check out with being much more intentional on the user side.
What would people deny? This is literally a feature in the game that it asks you if you want to use it, and is used to scan specific landmarks. It's not new information to anyone who plays the game.
I wouldn’t deny the mass data collection but the spying claim is fear-mongering. “Scanning” pokestops (POIs) is a feature in the game - the game is not constantly checking your camera
@@juliushibbert1091 Their own words say they take the pictures anytime the app is being used and not just poke stops but every time you check for Pokémon around you its sending that data back. "Niantic’s VPS is built from user scans, taken from different perspectives and at various times of day, at many times during the years, and with positioning information attached, creating a highly detailed understanding of the world. This data is unique because it is taken from a pedestrian perspective and includes places inaccessible to cars."
It’s crazy how 15 years ago it was common knowledge that dell was caught red handed with building back door access to their pc’s… but ppl nowadays think companies won’t do it haha
@@carsonhunt4642 pokemons is not a backdoor dumbass. When you download the app, it literally lists the bullet points this unemployed loser is pretending to freak out about. If you send pictures of yourself to someone, that someone will receive those pictures you sent to them... surprised?
Yes and no. Data, yes. But not any data and especially not multiple images and/or video. The reason is the data usage would show. However, concealing it as a game, you get the images you want and you get to conceal the data usage as the game data usage which are obviously the same.
@@Bolcjek The phone constantly captures images, voice, movements, location, EVERYTHING you Input into a computer, phone, etc. and even your THOUGHTS. It tracks your purchases via your credit cards. Your movements through cameras in the public space. TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS Program was the DARPA project (2002). Now it os Much Much stronger. You are about 30 years or more behind at this moment. Technology develops exponentially.
I'm not so much worried about them making 3D maps of public places, but more about them using the front camera to map people's faces. That gives them the ability to make deepfakes of anyone using the app. Also, what was not in the list, is that they can map and make a 3D model of the interior of your home. I'm also pretty sure that Pokemon is probably not the only app that is used for this.
cameras in restaurants and stores are getting so good they can 4k scan your face from further than an iphone can like you've been scanned for sure already
@christofthedead I can change my username whenever I want, it's not a part of me. I cannot change my face, fingerprints or DNA, nor do I want those characteristics in a CIA database without my knowledge or consent.
@@Bonez0r Changing your username doesn't mean anything when the account is the same. Even if you switch accounts you still tied it to an email, and to watch age restricted videos you'll need to tie an ID or credit card to that account.
You missed a very important point on why this is so insanely valuable. They don't just get random images of random locations. They can actively order certain images that they need by placing virtual locations (like Pokestops or Arenas) at locations of interest. They can decide at which location along a path a user is traversing they would like a scan, by spawning a rare Pokemon that person is definitely going to attempt catching. They can make a Pokemon fly around you while trying to catch it in order to get you to perform a 360 scan of your environment, and so on... In other words: They have millions of steerable agents out there distributed over the entire planet. And they are real people.
This is why I will never buy a new car. GPS, multiple cameras, 4g access points, radar, and fly/drive by wire systems integrated with all of those things is a huge liability.
They're not satisfied with you "just" spending thousands of dollars in their product, they have to scrape every cent off of you by selling your data or even starting greedy subscription services locking off features already present in the car.
Just wait. The infrastructure bill has all American cars made 2026 and after to have cameras watching the drivers and other features to monitor you. Another one is a patent ford just filed that will have all their new vehicles turned into speed monitoring systems for police. So if you pass a ford while speeding it will send your license plate and speed to the cops.
In 20 years theyll tell us elon had to use video cameras because the cars were a cia project he had little choice in and thats why that tesla on autopilot coasted straight into a giant deer standing still. To me i ride motorcycle its pretty sketch how the cia could be using elons tech if they want to apy on my specifically any time a tesla is behind it itll automatically recognize who i am and the feed juat goes in a file of all the times i ever drove infront of a tesla they be tryna use the time I switched lanes without a blinker to kneecap my election campaign simply because long ago the cia became out of control
@@Mis73rRand0m TH-cam really deleted my first message. So you guys are gonna have to look these 2 things up but it’s worth it. 1. The infrastructure bill and what that means for new cars made after 2026. 2. Fords new patent that has do with cameras on their new cars.
You have one thing wrong: This data it's not being obtained by taking pictures without your permission. It's being obtained through an explicit part of the game called "scanning", where you scan pokestops and gyms, creating a video of the area around them. And AR pictures, where you take a picture of your Pokemon in front of the real world. That's why they're open about it. They are doing it WITH your permission. If you make the mistake of scanning and doing AR stuff.
@@JRM-VSR The scanning doesn't work with my phone for whatever reason, but they have mostly asked me to scan the parking lot at my work. Of all the insane and evil stuff the CIA does, I'm really not worried about this particular one.
Yeah, everyone is acting like it's some covert plot, when Niantic has always said that collecting and selling this kind of data is their major goal. They've always made it clear that they make games to collect data. None of this should be a surprise to anyone.
@@shockthetoast you think they were upfront about recording data from your own home and effectively mapping out rooms in your own home along with your behaviors? Lmfao
@@ministryofwrongthink6962 They aren't. This is only about scanning and mapping specific real world landmarks in the game. That's what the 3D maps are. If they are doing anything beyond that, it's not what this article is talking about...
the saddest part about the surveillance state we’ve been living in for the last 10-15 years is that no one cares, so we’re in FAR too deep for anything to change. things are about to rapidly ramp up over the next couple years. good luck.
This video serves as a great tutorial on how to stretch a grain of truth to its breaking point. The game asks you to make scans, and it doesn't sneak pictures, you literally take them yourself when photographing your Pokemon in AR mode. The CIA doesn't care about how often you go to the bathroom or where your sex dungeon is located. This is simply data taken from people walking around and scanning real world locations called Pokestops. They can string this together with location data and accelerometer data to create a 3d web of the Earth anchored by those individual Pokestops. The goal is eventually creating a global coordinate system that allows you to position things in virtual space and have them show up consistently in the same location when you look at the real world via AR applications. So to put it simply they want to be able to place something in virtual space so that when you hold up your phone camera you see it there anchored in the same location every time. Think of it like being able to build virtual billboards. In the future this map will be combined with wearable technology similar to Google Glass to show advertisements, virtual mascots, or even host remote virtual meetings in real space. Without this technology the locations of objects in virtual space could be off by as much as 20 ft.
Yeah, the cia is funding this stuff because they are so altruistic and interested in scientific and technological improvement of humanity. Just like with MK Ultra, they just wanted to help the people. 😂
Should be clear with this though, they havent admitted to taking scans of things without user knowledge or input. The scans theyre describing when theyre “bragging” are user initiated scans of pokestops, which are locations approved by niantic to gather in game resources at. There is no user initiated scanning happening in your bathroom or house unless you somehow tricked niantic into allowing a pokestop where the “featured location” is a toilet.
Wherever a technology exists, someone will find a way to exploit it in ways previously not imagined. Even an innocent-seeming video game can be exploited, especially if the exploit is baked in.
I guess this explains why there’s a big trend and push for modern games to have login requirements, and for large publishers pushing developers to get away from standalone physical releases.
Nothing is sacred, this doesn't surprise me nearly as much as I feel like it should. Droves of people willingly walking around everywhere with active cameras, internet, cell signal and a GPS. They would be stupid to let such an opportunity go to waste.
Ah, this finally explains Niantic's strangely specific desire to mark and track religious institutions and those who go to them, per spot creation guidelines...
Not only could they build 3D AI map they could probably (most likely) lock in any person’s phone and build patterns of their most traveled places. Then if they ever needed to scoop a person up they could use AI to pop out a list of places they are most likely to be at certain time of day. Think “Eagle Eye” movie but instead of an AI hacking cameras it’s is pattern recognition to deduce where/when to find person
@@preciadoalex123 lololol yeah its totally normal for a small game to OVERLOAD your system and DRAW SO MUCH POWER it makes your phone unsafe to hold. Yeah completely normal... lololol
It's is not a small game at all. It's probably one of the most processor heavy games you can play on your phone because it uses every data service, camera, speaker, and constant video rendering with GPS data. Not sure how that constitutes a "small game" 🤷
@@michaelholt6274 The game is tiny, you walk around a google maps overlay and swipe up. There is no in depth mechanics to the game. Ive seen people play hacked versions to move around the world, its not a big game. Ive played more complex flash games in the 90s. You're right it does use all of those features...almost like they are the REAL features of the 'game'....Almost like you didnt watch this video either. How did they get the AI map? "Hmmm, my phone is red hot while looking at this jigglypuff, must be these next-gen graphics!! Derp!"
I bet they can do some AI quantic cross-referential correlation analysis of the cinetica of how you've thrown your balls at unwitting pokefurries in the wild and estimate with a 3 sigma interval of confidence how you ply/wrap your toilet paper after a heavy chimichangas. _Maximum-likelihood-style._
“Editor’s note: We use player-contributed scans of public real-world locations to help build our Large Geospatial Model. This scanning feature is completely optional - people have to visit a specific publicly-accessible location and click to scan. This allows Niantic to deliver new types of AR experiences for people to enjoy. Merely walking around playing our games does not train an AI model.”
With centimeter level accuracy and an understanding of spacial reasoning, one could make AI steered bombs that walk around on legs, like the size of a cat or even smaller, and position them places. Awesome for an agency that sometimes assassinates people. Make a rat-sized, walking, climbing, crawling hand grenade and have it sneak into the embassy or hotel or office building and hide under the target's desk, then wait for somebody with the matching voice print to sit there, then let it explode.
That would draw too much attention. If some big bad wanted to kill you, they'd do it without drawing obvious attention. An explosion is obvious that somebody was killed. A car crash is not.
Okay their scanning feature is a functionality in the game. You have to actually do a scan (around a pokestop). It isn’t an automated thing running in the background at all times.
Yeah and if you have an older phone like mine, it doesn’t even work. So all they’re potentially collecting from most users is GPS data which our phones already do.
There’s a truth to you and the YT author. I still see this video as “click bait”. He’s not telling us anything you wouldn’t know playing this absolute dumb game. I play it. It’s a distraction for me. It makes complete sense now why if you log out and log back in, AR is turned back on. But the app is disabled in having my camera or photos. Really, the other issue is Google and apple. So this is a kick in the bucket to me.
Not surprised. I remember when it first came out most conspiracy folks were saying exactly this. Also, remember when Facebook had the automatic facial recognition for tags in the 2010s, people said that was to enhance a database or algorithm too and I believe it.
At 10:06 This is the 'Scan Pokestop' feature in Pokémon Go. You hold your phones camera to a pokestop and record and upload a short video of the location of that pokestop. Pretty interesting info! Edit- to clarify I am criticizing his video but the info Niantic put out is interesting.
Can’t believe this video has thousands of people believing this guy. Oh look another influencer who can’t read and has never played the game that his video is about.😂
@@bubbleman91You're not addressing any of the claims. Why? There are a lot of questionable relationships and actions described in the video. Why are you so quick to defend it without merit?
@@rucker69 which claim? That the CIA invested in Niantic? Maybe that's true. But most of this video is him, talking about the article without understanding it.
@@bubbleman91why else do you think the CIA was behind it? If you believe that they were just trying to make a fun video game you are woefully ignorant.
And whenever they need constant surivalliance of some place they can position a pokestop there. Kids being turned into CIA sleeper agents and people still believe in liberty 😂
Maybe this is why they cracked down so hard on people spoofing GPS to play the game in a more fulfilling way… I know spoofers were still spending lots of money on the game (if not more than regular players), and that money still went to Niantic too, and yet Niantic would rather ban them… odd.
The user scans are not at all times, they are referring to the “AR scan” tasks you are able to complete in game for rewards. Outside of this or “AR Mode”, which are all voluntary things, they don’t use your camera. You quite literally know they’re doing this, it’s explained in-game, and it’s not some super secret thing. Are y’all truly this cooked mentally? You think the CIA would wait for Niantic to make this game to start using phone cameras for something like this? The only way you could avoid this type of thing, if you truly do care, is to either inhibit the phones cameras or to not have a smart phone to begin with. Good luck.
I'm pretty sure this is describing the "Scan a Pokestop" feature released in 2020. Not that it's constantly scanning. A feature that heavily bogs down the phone when being used and often doesn't even work properly. You would be able to notice if it was using that tech all the time. The "Scan a Pokestop" feature (not where you spin the disk) was obviously an attempt at using what's known as photogrammetry to essentially 3D scan a model using multiple images taken at different angles. This is a technique used for 3D modeling without actually having a 3D scanner. Not the most accurate, but close enough for government work. **bedum tissss** In reality, It probably isn't as nefarious as this video makes it sound like, but ALWAYS be leery of government funded projects... Especially when Google is involved.
And you are just scanning things that are already on Google Maps or some stupid stone or fountain or a sign post in the middle of a field. This would be the biggest fail in CIA history if it was true. Tracking people on the other hand...I could see that happening, but the phone could do that without a game anyways. This conspiracy doesn't make any sense.
@@aalertI agree. I feel like this video is fear mongering for views. I’m not denying anything, I just don’t think it’s as serious as he’s making it sound. I just don’t get the point of why the government wants to secretly scan me going to my local park// or to map my house.
The day the program came out, it was revealed the company was kickstarted by the CIA (they do this alot), and I felt from the beginning they were using the app to gather up to date photo data of random and little seen places for some kind of clandestine spying tool. KNEW IT!
"tHeRe'S rEaLlY gOoD pRiVaTcY oN sMaRtPhOnEs" Lol, yeah no, I keep turning those settings off, but they ether keep giving me new ones, or can't even be turned off
In the game, you scan landmarks with your camera. That's what Niantic means when they say they are receiving pictures from the game. What about this implies that they are taking pictures at other times?
lol niantic had a game before they collabed with pokemon go called "ingress" that was basically a gamified territory control AR version of this, I'm not surprised
@@darklink01ika92 Nobody mentions it because it completely uses GPS, on a 2D (real world-based) map. It doesn’t use camera-based AR like Pokémon Go does. So basically, it’s no more dangerous than using Google maps or Google earth.
10:35 It's really not like that at all. Pokémon GO has AR scan quests where you have to voluntarily scan and upload a video of your surroundings in particular places and you get an in-game reward for that. The game does not activate the camera by its own while you are walking.
The difference is that they only do it this way because the data gets too dirty otherwise. Millions of kids getting turned into sleeper agents for the CIA should beget more outrage and less apologizing on their part.
@@jonphotos8631 I use GrapheneOS on my phone and have stricter control on permissions. I can guarantee you that the only times the camera activates are: when I do AR activities, when I scan locations voluntarily and when I take irl photos of my Pokémon.
@@CoercedJab I don't know about that and I know the game has your GPS data all of the time, but the camera part is a hoax. You can even play without camera permissions, but you shoot yourself in the foot since without camera you can't play with your companion Pokémon and you can't access AR missions.
I would hazard a guess this has been going on with cellular phones for longer than Pokemon Go. That software was developed to refine what already existed.
So the bans for changing your geolocation on rooted devices wasn't because it was unfair but because it was poisoning data?
LMFAO
Abso-fucking-lutely.
so we were really just rebels all along
YES
yup.
My rule of thumb is, if I can think of how a thing might be used for evil, then it's probably being used for evil.
Corollary: even if you can't think of a way, evildoers probably can
If something is free, you are the product.
This sounds paranoid af
@@Rumo_Notna it is, if you can’t compartmentalize your thought experiments properly. If by thinking of them it infects your worldview in a detrimental manner you should probably do the abstract thinking in more safe domains and let others feel the edges of the world.
A lot of people think the sound of freedom is an exaggeration when it’s barely scratching the surface. To recognize the reality would cause them a type of pain that they prefer to avoid by camping down the truth.
So turns out, the player is the Pokémon and the CIA is the Pokémon Trainer all along.
I knew it was a petification kink thing
It has been verified since the app came out
You gotta catch 'em all!
The same adults who play that game are the reason we constant scam ads and calls
@@ped7gThey have to catch us all!
Feels good knowing I cheated in Pokemon Go with GPS spoofing. The CIA now thinks most of my city looks like the inside of my living room.
Gay people sh*t = spoofing 😂
Same 😂
Hahahaha exactly what i was thinking 😂😂😂
Real actually
lmao, same. Japan in my room. Once i got banned i just never played it.
The sad thing is...If they are bragging about it, its already too late. They have what they need.....
Facts.
🎯
The 2A was designed to stop radical government overreach by force. People are gonna have to get hip to that fact real soon...
Yup
To do fucking what
NO WONDER there were so many great legendary Pokémon available around the Russian Embassy!
😂😂
they was zorua you cant get wild legendary you get scam bro
@@oipioobyou can
Found my one and only Lapris at a capitol building when it showed up randomly in a park connecting. An area I had never seen a rare spawn like that ever
LMAO 🤣🤣
My dad said it was probably a CIA project back in the day. Hilarious.
Based dad
When it first came out my husband said the same thing, and included all those "free" games that get kids to record their voice or take a picture of their digital pet "irl" ...all of it is just data collection, because if the game is free, then you are the product (as in your data)
Not to brag, but when I first downloaded it and it wanted my location, my camera, and everything else. I was like, "yeeeaah, no, this is some kind of government/military trap."
Funny part is this wasn't the first time that the company that produced it made a "game". Pokémon go is based off of an older app. I don't recall what the name of it is, but either way, yeah, they have a decade plus of data that they can pull from.
@@jamesbuckner4791 Their first game is called Ingress. I signed up for it but never actually used it or Pokemon Go. I liked the concept at first but quickly realized I'm far too lazy to actually run around town with smartphone just to play a game.
I've been saying this forever. The idea behind Pokémon GO came from Google and when the game exploded in popularity I immediately suspected military use.
I wonder if Google contracts directly for the U.S. DoD? I sure hope they don't, because that would be VERY suspect.
@@WeeG-bwc77Google got started with a Darpa grant... Just sayin' 😂
@@WeeG-bwc77? Why wouldn't they?
@@WeeG-bwc77 its Google ofcourse they do
Yeah, too much cover on the news even in Italy to be a genuine thing
Actually brilliant. "We want a photo of this place. Oh look a Pikachu is there! Better go take pictures to get him!"
It's like giving a candy to a kid
Not just a photo of a place but of people they deem problematic.
People will actually be controllable like Sims. It can happen to anyone seriously they basically give you an aneurysm rhen map you're brain even change your looks by doing so it's weird .
I love how the process to spawn your buddy in the camera is literally like "Scan to the left... now more to the right... back up... ok now hold still..."
@@YeshMCx The spawning of your buddy has sometime just a few months ago even worked without a camera at all. That was faster, more convenient, and it was just on a black background then. After before having required what you just said. Im not sure thats included in the data sent to them because only 1 million a week? there are 90 million active players. And if you play actively, you would summon your buddy at least twice, maybe up to 3 times a day.
I think its talking about the scans of arenas which you can scan each othem every day. That gives some rewards and levels up the arena for you which im not 100% what that does but for that you actually capture video which is then sent to them. It might be only that.
In 1984, the state paid to surveil you. In 2024, we pay to surveil ourselves.
It's a brave new world out there
And we spy on our neighbors and call the police if their grass isn’t cut
As long as the chocolate ration is increased from 250g to 180g weekly, I'm okay with that
We also pay to buy the latest GPS tracker and microphone to keep in our pocket all day long
For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
“And remember kids, the next time that somebody tells you, "The government wouldn't do that," oh yes they would.”
-Wendigoon
He should cover this.
f Wendigoon and f talent groups
😂he knows wsp
I think you mean “oh they already did”
Facts dude.
This is the most justified "I told you so" of 2024
They literally spelled it out in the beginning. I don't understand how anyone is surprised or acting like it was some conspiracy.
This was publicly announced like almost ten years ago when the game came out even before then it was a game called ingress and it had that stated goal and was voluntary. This has been going on since forever. it's called photo stitching and metadata.
@ Doesn't that make the "I told you so" even more justified?
@@Etobio No it doesn’t. Not at all. Why would it make sense? It’s like saying “I told you that water was used to water crops!” Yeah. We all knew that.
@ You're right, I'll just take my 165 likes from the people who agree with me and be on my way. Have a pleasant day!
In 2017, Pokemon GO saw a ban in Mainland China, with the reason sited pertaining to the game being a risk to national security, as well as the safety of consumers within the country. Doesn't sound so crazy now ain't it.
If Chinese government wouldn't do even crazier things, then perhaps it would.
@@bonbonpony ah, deflecting, yes. "It's not so crazy, Chinesr are!"
@@bonbonpony such as?
It never did sound crazy to begin with.
inb4 that guy replies with another CIA honeypot as an example @@leezhieng
I actually said this years ago! They were using the placement of rare pokemon to encourage people to go to places they wanted mapped!
Yes. I saw some kid photo my neighbors van and other useless things. But we know who got those pictures.
I thought this as well
What special places?
There were in app location names like "rail yard".
I also called this. First time I saw people walking around with their cameras live as they played the game, I said "i wonder whos storing all that data?". Gold mine.
That explains the horrible game quality. It's not a game at all. It's not meant to be a good game. It's meant to be a bait.
Yes, the entire thing is an illegal psychological operation, even the kid who sang the meme song.
Yeah when people were going crazy for it I couldn't believe it. It just doesn't sound fun
This is a red herring, pokemon games have sucked for more than a decade now... or maybe they have been lowering our standards on purpose?
@@dr_redbanRL Manically addictive it seems. Well earned medals.
@@TheChuostaThey've been lowering their standards becuse they know their diehard braindead fans will buy their slop.
As a PoGo player for several years, I knew it was a tracking and data collecting app first, Pokemon game second. I think a lot of players knew. I personally didn't care, because other apps on my phone were doing similar already. I always imagined the data from location scans would go towards some type of AR technology, that was a big aspect of the game through mobile device based AR interaction.
I believe there is a bit of misinformation in the video, in that location scans were not happening all the time, everywhere. The location scans were at specific pokestops, and you had to consent to start a scan. A user would get a bonus as a result. For a time you could cover your camera and send in just black footage. Mostly I'd scan the ground. That said, people use their AR in their homes and such all the time. Niantic has another game where a player cannot turn AR camera access off at all.
I stopped playing this year when I wouldn't agree to Niantic's updated ToS. Taking consumers' rights away to class action lawsuits was the line for me.
You have done your service to the commies willingly?
that explains why it was so bad on the battery lmao, the lidar/camera probably pinging all the time.
Explained why my phone just couldn't handle it.
@@Yamaazaka and we all needed those portable charging banks to play longer xD
we were paying extra to let the gov get us to map ourselves for longer lmao
Lmao I'm glad I turned the camera feature off from day one ❤
@@sgjoel Sometimes a lot of extra- I made $480 in one night just by having 2 portable car starters in a wagon connected up to 4x20ft usb cables charging at 5a. I loved it the most when desperate people would pay for 20 minutes and then use the phone while it's charging because I knew they would be back again soon.
The battery drain wasn't really any worse than using something like Google Maps or Waze. It shouldn't be surprising that constantly calculating your location from incoming GPS data uses your battery.
So thats why that Picachu kept jumping the fence into that Confucius Institute near my house.
Oh…
🤣
Nintendo sued Palworld because it wasn't evil enough
😂😂😂😂
Hah hah... Hah hah hah hah hah. Fucking funny 💀
Your phone is spying on you even without pokemon...
Infrared camera is always scanning for your face > face id
@@RealBullbearToo bad I always block my camera with a sticker.
They use WiFi like sonar and can still see you via infrared
The Pokémon app was a convenient way for them to direct toward the pictures they wanted.
With pokemon, you have them consent to do it as much as they want. Do you ever read the terms and conditions when you install?!
Who uses the camera in Pokémon go to begin with. Legit makes the game more janky
Fr never used it and was just fine
Nobody. Except when pulling up your buddy
Yeah idk if I should worry. I never use the camera or AR function anyways
@@umi2751Your phone has plenty of other sensors, best not be trusting with the CIA's pet project.
@@piotr78you can turn that off too
Now imagine if they were to specifically position pokemon in places that they want you to scan... hmm...
I'm 99.9% sure that they were doing that.
So in other words, the koffing that appeared in the holocaust museum was an intentional shitpost by the CIA
They don't, they just give you missions to scan the places they want scanned. The rewards pretty good, too. It's not a secret function, you have to actually start the scanning function, it's explicit in-game.
For the numerous quests saying take 5 pictures of a water pokemon or whatever, people probably took pictures of paperwork on their desks or all kinds of stuff.
They are and its not even surprising.
What if I told you this probably isn’t limited to Pokemon? It’s just the biggest one being brought to light.
Yeah, I reckon if you have a phone with a camera, which is basically every phone now, then the CIA can spy on you, plus the mics 😬
All niantic games, including monster hunter now which has gained a lot of popularity. That explains their gotcha model, anyone dumb enough to spend 5-8 hours a day on these apps will be dumb enough to spend a ton money on them.
No wayyy
Google Earth
Yeah. I wondered whether any software that uses voice recognition can map your voice and then allow you to be tracked via any device with a microphone connected to the Internet.
It would be very surprising if something similar wasn't being used with facial recognition and social media.
"Conspiracy theory" now simply means spoiler alert.
Sometimes, but some theories are just too stupid. I can't even hear the 5G stuff anymore from people who have obviously no idea how the real world physics work
@@SterileNeutrino Sure, I'm exaggerating here. Given what we've seen over the past few years from governments, I now keep an open mind towards any so-called "conspiracy theory" that isn't obviously stupid like 5G towers will remotely mind control us, or the literal Lizard People are the true controllers of our world.
@@SterileNeutrino ok fed
@@SterileNeutrino and the question here is , do you ? do you really ? Otherwise just crank the volume in a manner of speech. It's not like microwaves are imaginative.
@@SterileNeutrino If you mean, mobilizing magic nanobot cyber armies in people's bloodstreams - ok.
But the density of 5G cells is much higher than previous tech, and use beam-forming via phased array antennae to direct the power towards an end point (e.g. phone). In normal functioning, such cells negotiate who has the best sight to target and will be connected. But one _could,_ if one wanted, direct all towers in reach towards the same target & crank up the power. I wouldn't want to have my head there, even without calculations. It also seems convenient that one knows which target phone belongs to which person of interest.
From the Niantic article which you haven’t pointed out (I don’t think at least): “Editor’s note: We use player-contributed scans of public real-world locations to help build our Large Geospatial Model. This scanning feature is completely optional - people have to visit a specific publicly-accessible location and click to scan. This allows Niantic to deliver new types of AR experiences for people to enjoy. Merely walking around playing our games does not train an AI model.”
Yeah right! Everyone that has ever played knows that a HUGE part is using your camera to create an 'augmented reality' on the screen so that you can find the Pokemon.
@@ktex4873Nobody that actively plays Pokémon Go uses the AR function to capture Pokémon. It's way too slow and drains your battery unnecessarily.
Yep. All that is EVIIIL here is that they're not more upfront about you helping them build a LGM. That's all.
The CIA can pokemon go to hell
well, they're filled with guys that like to pokemen
Nice
Didn't they put all those gas pokemon at that famous museum in germany ...
😂😂😂😂
Now we know why hillary brought it up
So the game gets insane amounts of value out of people playing the game, burning their data plans sending a bunch of information that doesn't benefit players over the network and they _still_ have to pay microtransactions? That's scary _and_ greedy.
Only the smartest and most devious most ruthless of humans will survive in this brave new world we have created..
@@robertharper3114 im quiting the game wonder how many more will?
If only all those people weren't forced to play a phone game against their will! The travesty!
You don't have to pay microtransaction in the game. It's not like you can't advance in the game if you don't pay microtransactions, like in DCUO Online or Destiny 2.
I mean you can say that's egregious and very greedy for asking for microtransactions after collecting all this data but don't say "oh you can't play the game if you don't pay for microtransactions".
Do you even *know the difference* between having to pay for a microtransaction (or just anything in general) and not having to pay for that???
And no, I can't really believe I am defending that game after watching this video and after the fact that I stopped playing the game for like 6 or 7 years.
@@SkyRied1 It's not even a game. Don't you realize? It's a data collection tool, made to look like a game. It's devious.
While you were catching pokemon, CIA were catching you.
In old USSR Pokemon catches you.
Classic internet. You don't own anything, anything owns you Russian memes.
Gotta catch us all
While I was just existing with a smartphone, CIA was capturing me
Oh no, the CIA knows i have a bed in my bedroom and 2 posters on my wall. What will i do.
I remember making a joke when pokemon go first came out that there were probably pokemon inside people's gun safes
Final gym leader CIA director.
**battle music plays**
CIA director Giovanni sends out Persian
CIA director switch out persian for LSD mindslave.
I cannot like this comment. It is at 69 likes.
So who are the *ELITE 4* ?
Rothschild, Rockefeller and?
Persian uses "Magic Bullet"!
Two hits!
What’s most frightening to me isn’t that they are doing this. It’s that even if the public fully knew about this the overwhelming majority wouldn’t even care. The level of control and compliance is that complete. This is what they ADMIT they are doing. One can only imagine the horrors that they are responsible for.
Yep. They’re playing “god”
That's why everything goes to sheit... People are way too stupid today and they don't care.
this is why they keep us fighting over divisive politics. we can’t fight them if we are busy hating each other
Meanwhile Russian disinfo and troll farms are actively poisoning the well of political discussion and it's leading to the far right taking over europe/usa. Everything is out in the open, nobody even cares.
Its like the electrically shocked dog will eventually give up and atop moving away even when they can.
We have all given up our privacy.
Can’t help but think of Hilary Clinton saying ‘Pokémon go to the polls’ back in 2016 as a campaign slogan.
Right. But hillary is also fuckin retarded bro its just that simple. Sorta corrupt but basically shes retarded
Yes, very odd isn't it...
@@GunShark0 no not really
@@GunShark0 Not really. She tried to be hip and cool to appease the youth while failing miserably. Not even the sitting President of the US knows about everything that is going on in the CIA. They are the most autonomous three letter agency in the US.
That's wicked considering the emails 💀
Its crazy how people gave away their privacy for absolutely nothing in return. Their entire lives are online. Its not going to end well when it comes to freedom.
TH-cam Ad placement: "Let's put a Pokémon Go advert immediately before this video! Any press is good press!"
uBlock Origin
jokes on you i have not just one, but TWO ad blockers! (ublock + adguard)
They are mocking you morons.
If you're a patriot you'll buy our spy app and go in the neighbor's yard
I had one for that one about the virtual land buying, same thing...
Adding CIA operative to my resume and hyperlinking this video under it. Thanks!
xD
😂
I worked a security route driving job when the game came out. All of our clients were just local business, but even for them this game was a security nuisance. The first week or two I kept finding random kids inside properties trying to catch pokemon at like 3 a.m. I can only imagine what it was like in places with more sensitive locations around.
I imagine it would be better since less kids would trespass into clearly sensitive areas lol
@@CoercedJabExcept the opposite was happening for years
China doing the same thing on tiktok etc. Survaillance platform
let kids trespass and play pokémon go at 3am… damn people lost humanity 😢
@@susanwojcicki5714 🔫👮 Never
It's not about spying on you. It's about using you to do the work for them.
Of course they want to do 3D mapping. They would prefer a complete mapping of the inside of every building and every indoor and outdoor space in the world of they can get it. Think about how SOME police departments train with VR using a map out of the house before they raid a place now. Why would an intelligence agency not want a accurate spatial VR map out of the entire world? It's not about the people using it, it's about using them to do the work of mapping.
You realize you basically just said, it's not about spying on you, it's about you doing the work so they can spy on everyone in the world (which would include you)
The "amazing" thing with government agencies, in particular intelligence, is that they have absolutely zero limit in terms of ethics. Anything goes to serve their goals, in a fully opaque way. In the "normal world", those guys would be called psychopaths. Interestingly, when you get paid by tax money, somehow you seem to become entitled to act like a psychopath without any consequences except possibly a bonus when you've done something exceptionally unethical.
People openly handed their data over. There’s nothing unethical going on here in my opinion
This is why you should only vote for people who want to dismantle government agencies
@@YearOfTheSwagonbut it wasn't open, at all. And most of the people playing Pokemon Go were literal CHILDREN
@@YearOfTheSwagonserious question, are you Jewish?
@@YearOfTheSwagon 'Hello sir I have received a massive inheritance from my Nigerian prince brother, Please freely hand your data to me'
Is your logic still following?
Nixon got kicked out for something like 50 wiretaps (from memory), amazing how times change.
Mussolinni's definition was the marriage of corporation and state. Yet were all ok with the CIA having it's own corporations.
@@bp6942 It’s funny how many use the term without understanding it.
The Watergate burglars should have offered to give high fives to democrat insiders who talked about what was going on.
Which is basically what Pokemon Go did, they offered really trivial non-monetary rewards.
@@bp6942 yeah, it was done without his knowledge and there was a whole recorded phone call where he's raging a the people who did it after he found out.
@@Treblainethe Watergate burglars bungled the operation on purpose to put Nixon in a trap.
Pokemon Go, Tik Tok, social media, music, movies, damn. Turns out me slowly thinking everything society does is stupid and losing interest in media while not participating in anything new on top of it might make me off-putting to the average person but it sounds like I participate in about at least 45% less psy-ops than the average american.
😂TH-cam is the biggest one
This is my thinking as well. Every year I give up the internet for lent (as much as I can at least, so no recreational use but work-related things are okay). After a brief "withdrawl" period it's a very quiet and peaceful time.
Totally lost interest in nearly all media too. Sign of the times.
The most i do is watch game stuff on youtube, everything else i do is archaic, tastes and everything. Modern times DO suck
everything in the economy is gearedntoward progress toward a great "something", in tandem with this sort of operation, what is this "something" they are building?
such data aggregation could be used for awesome machines
“The government would never-“
“Yes, yes they would”
Not surprised at all as I remember wondering WHY a video game was being made by a company with Intelligence company connections. I thought it was incredibly strange.
Same with Google. The very platform you're using to watch this video. 😂
In a similar vein, just like Google maps began as a CIA tool before it became a consumer software product
A lot more art and music has intelligence connections than you'd think. There are large history books written on this, it's not secret (anymore).
Way she goes @@joemerino3243
@@joemerino3243such as?
I lived in the bay area of California when Niantic released some precursor app to Pokemon Go, around 2013, and I said it was a CIA asset to my friends because there were obvious trails between Niantic and the CIA. Glad to see a video on the topic.
Ingress! That game was steeped in that counter intelligence aesthetic. It was way more fun than Go.
@@XBret64It wasn't way more fun that PGo. I tried after playing PGo and I had absolutely no f-ing clue what I am even supposed to do in that game or how it even works. People say that Pokemon Go graphics are terrible but they never tried Ingress. PGo is more more intuitive, you understand what you have to do right away. This is why Ingress never took off. Actually, before Pokemon Go I never heard of Niantic or Ingress before.
I remember Ingress too.
Back in 2012, Ingress took it a step further with code breaking and "hacking" challenges as well.
You’re glad to see a video on that OVER A DECADE later???
Never played PokemonGo
Never Used Wish
never used Temu
Never used TicToc
Still Being Surveilled 📸
I can do one better: Never had a smartphone.
I'm with ya on those. Only used temu once though ... What evil is it designed to do? Haven't heard that one yet
Same. I only use fb and youtube and Google. Which all spy on you.
I was immediately extremely suspicious of temu once it started appearing literally out of no where and suddenly being super omnipresent in so many ads. Same with Tiktok, then I learned about all the data these apps collect from you, it's actually bordering on mind control
@@johnwayne3904 Sell cheap garbage to gullible people. China claims "developing country" status with NATO, so their merchants don't have to pay a single dime to export products. Meanwhile, shipping something _to_ China costs a small fortune. The Temu merchants capitalize on this by shipping people garbage products knowing they won't pay $75 to return something they bought for $10.
The CIA being interested in any altruistic uses for this technology, is like Jason being interested in cutting down trees with his chainsaw!
Ahhh, now I get why and how the media "accidentally" caught some of our politicians in Norway playing pokemon during breaks. It all makes sense now.
"There's no way they are bypassing the controls". They don't need to. The game asks. And the users say yes.
As far as all the photos/videos of real-world locations - their first game, Ingress, flat out asks you to take a walk-round video of notable locations with GPS traces recorded as you do it, and upload the video. You get a (really mild) in-game reward for doing so, and it's well known in the playerbase that this is obvious data collection used for understanding the 3D world from 2D recordings -- exactly what they are describing here. And ... loads of people do take those videos and send them in. I'm willing to bet that's the primary datasource for what's being described here.
Even more ironic considering the title of the game. Talk about hiding in plain sight.
This is exactly what I came to say, it's all good about the pokemon go stuff because they released it after and it changed the way approach as to how to motivate the players to move around and capture data in regards to ingress but the OG "algorithm" that was 100% location and territory based is clearly way more relevant.
@@Mama_esta_presa ingress was more fun tho
this same feature was implemented into in PoGo as well. when this feature launched like 2 years ago, i was instantly very concerned what this data was being used for.
obviously the DoD was right for banning this app on bases and such
I don't know why this is so surprising. Niantic has always made it clear that their business is about the data collection. They make a lot of money off of in-game purchases, but they always made it clear their major business model was collecting and selling this type of data.
Not sure if Pokemon Go does the same thing as Niantic's Ingress, but that game has a badge to earn for "scanning a portal," which is a 360 video you upload of where the "waypoint" is located. I didn't even put the two things together until I had this video recommended.
PoGo was BUILT on Ingress, I mean that literally. They do the exact same thing.
@@alinamhensleyExactly. I was playing Ingress back in 2016 but gave up a year or so ago. I was telling a fellow agent that the difference between the two would be that Ingress gets a lot of dashboards being recorded 😂
@@alinamhensleywhat is ingress?
@@alinamhensleyyep, the only difference (for a while) is that Pokémon go had the more significant AR aspect. Now, of course, ingress has it too. But I refuse to use it for a lot of the reasons in the video.
And now we have the Monster Hunter version..
From the article’s wording, it seems that they are only scanning when people choose to scan a landmark (or whatever they call it in Pokemon Go). Still creepy, but it doesn’t seem like they’re admitting to be always scanning and uploading the data.
Yeah this is exactly what they were saying. It’s far less ominous than this video and comments are making it seem.
@@shiro7820 Uh... what? It's still a blatant violation of the Constitution, and *incredibly* illegal. Why are you defending it?
So this why Apple has been so adamant about pushing AR and the use of FaceID. Makes a lot of sense now.
Android too
yea idk why people buy that spyware, for a lot of money even.
@@hankstorm3135eventually there won’t be an option not to
Don’t lump Apple in, they have evil plans that do not agree with the govt.
How can you forget when the US govt literally had to force Apple to give them access to iOS devices owned by terrorists because Apple didn’t like the precedent set by allowing a backdoor for any reason.
Well apple is in bed with the CCP
So the whole thing Edward Snowden exposed a while ago about with tracking credit cards purchases to monitor people has only… evolved?
My husband tracks my credit card use😅
Exposed snowjob.
That is not what he is in hiding for lmao
@@Zagar099 He isnt in hiding. And he did nothing wrong. Nothing you could do to expose ANY secret government documents could ever be wrong, no matter what is in them. You already paid for the compilation of those with your taxes, you ought to be able to read them and do whatever the heck you want with them. No exceptions.
what, did you think our government would stop spying on us? they will never stop. if they can get away with something, they'll always do it, no matter how reprehensible it is. if they can't get away with it, they'll condition the masses until they can get away with it. they've got most of the nation fighting for a mother's "right" to kill her child. if that includes you, open your eyes for a moment and ask yourself how you let the world convince you of something so crazy. 100 years ago there would have been bloody revolution if the government sent taxpayer dollars to the likes of a baby killing corporation.
There's no stopping this. Phones won't go away. Not even apps. We're fucked by our own ignorance.
💥💯
You got that "a hunerd" percent right
I think these bring up big 4th amendment violation concerns. If you need warrant for cop to be in home why is cia allowed to map the square inches of our house?
Literally only the second coming of Christ can stop the machine at this point. We're in too deep.
A lot of things are fucked by our own ignorance
@@noice__corporate greed is one of those things. It’s killing us all
Basically they want a system where they can ask an AI "where is this guy" and the ai using the most recent accurate information, it can pull up this guy's precise position in the world (virtual space version)
Such a systen already exists. He's called rainbolt😂
There is nothing AI about that
@@piotr78AI can do it much faster
@piotr78 well the AI is simply for the computational portion of the system. All the data is gathered by the ppl. Think of the AI like a borderline perfect GeoGuessr Player. The information is supplied by the people through their phones (so pictures, elevation, gps, local sounds, all sorts of data). The AI just compiles all the data to figure the exact location, much faster than any human could. Its a small portion of it thats AI but its also the heaviest workload task.
In 2016, I was in a certain country in a certain conflict and I was told multiple times by the same person that works in the local military/government that Pokémon go was this greatest CIA project or game or something some words along those lines, he would say “imagine walking down the street and there’s a Charizard in a suspected Ammo Depot that we have well you can go in there and take a picture and now they have that picture” and yeah now they’re probably building a 3-D map of all these pictures… and Pokémon go just came out maybe a year prior and I remember walking and seeing people on the streets of this certain country seeing them playing Pokémon go and that’s when these conversations would pop up and because this person was very high up in the the local military government so he would stop people in street as we walked around and inform them of this so that’s how I’ve heard this multiple times and now to hear this your video in 2024 is just hilarious and absolutely confirms this for me since 1st heard this so long ago.
The fact that you used punctuation in one single place in your entire comment is making my head spin.
@@thatswhatshesaid.literally737atleast we know they’re not ai
@@thatswhatshesaid.literally737 yes ma'am my punctuation skills are unmatched
Makes total sense, except
You don't catch them with a camera.
@@Whydidyouusemyname nice try Mr cia
This remember me the Batman movie where they have access to all the mobiles and were able to create a real-time image of all the world. That scene in the movie just blew my mind, this is just scary.
And how they decided the tech was to evil so hid it from the world..
We live in a world were a Batman movie has more ethics than our own Government and Corporations..
Art becomith reality
@@forlexer or imitates it.
This is actually a game feature where it sometimes asks you to scan specific landmarks, if you do it you get bonuses. It's not secretly running like in The Dark Knight.
It's called predictive programming.
I knew it was fishy when I couldn't fake my location on it
My buddy was able to spoof his location
You can fake your location, but now I have a better idea why they cared so much about cheaters lmfao
Yup, stopped playing once my account was banned for gps spoofing.
One thing to note, they mention they are getting their data from "scans" that have hundreds of images.
This sounds less like normal photos taken with a pokemon and more like the "scan" feature you intentionally opt into to power up a pokestop. There's a disclaimer when you start that mentions it's sending info to Niantic.
I don't have a reason to believe they *aren't* using normal photos, but their story does check out with being much more intentional on the user side.
The deniers will still fail to see for what this data could be used for. Their rationale is : I know, but I have nothing to hide.
What would people deny? This is literally a feature in the game that it asks you if you want to use it, and is used to scan specific landmarks. It's not new information to anyone who plays the game.
I wouldn’t deny the mass data collection but the spying claim is fear-mongering. “Scanning” pokestops (POIs) is a feature in the game - the game is not constantly checking your camera
"I have nothing to hide."
- So you would agree to a cavity search then.
@@juliushibbert1091a rightful fear.
@@juliushibbert1091 Their own words say they take the pictures anytime the app is being used and not just poke stops but every time you check for Pokémon around you its sending that data back. "Niantic’s VPS is built from user scans, taken from different perspectives and at various times of day, at many times during the years, and with positioning information attached, creating a highly detailed understanding of the world. This data is unique because it is taken from a pedestrian perspective and includes places inaccessible to cars."
FYI. Every phone does this all day, every day.
It’s crazy how 15 years ago it was common knowledge that dell was caught red handed with building back door access to their pc’s… but ppl nowadays think companies won’t do it haha
@@carsonhunt4642 pokemons is not a backdoor dumbass. When you download the app, it literally lists the bullet points this unemployed loser is pretending to freak out about.
If you send pictures of yourself to someone, that someone will receive those pictures you sent to them... surprised?
Yes and no. Data, yes. But not any data and especially not multiple images and/or video. The reason is the data usage would show. However, concealing it as a game, you get the images you want and you get to conceal the data usage as the game data usage which are obviously the same.
@@Bolcjek
The phone constantly captures images, voice, movements, location, EVERYTHING you Input into a computer, phone, etc. and even your THOUGHTS.
It tracks your purchases via your credit cards.
Your movements through cameras in the public space.
TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS Program was the DARPA project (2002).
Now it os Much Much stronger.
You are about 30 years or more behind at this moment.
Technology develops exponentially.
@@Bolcjek Exactly youd get "data usage" warnings all day if this was "all day streaming vids and pics" lol
I'm not so much worried about them making 3D maps of public places, but more about them using the front camera to map people's faces. That gives them the ability to make deepfakes of anyone using the app. Also, what was not in the list, is that they can map and make a 3D model of the interior of your home. I'm also pretty sure that Pokemon is probably not the only app that is used for this.
cameras in restaurants and stores are getting so good they can 4k scan your face from further than an iphone can like you've been scanned for sure already
Why are you posting as yourself? Aren't you worried about people finding out your youtube username?
@christofthedead I can change my username whenever I want, it's not a part of me. I cannot change my face, fingerprints or DNA, nor do I want those characteristics in a CIA database without my knowledge or consent.
@@Bonez0r Changing your username doesn't mean anything when the account is the same. Even if you switch accounts you still tied it to an email, and to watch age restricted videos you'll need to tie an ID or credit card to that account.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD I could still get another anonymous account if I wanted.
You missed a very important point on why this is so insanely valuable. They don't just get random images of random locations. They can actively order certain images that they need by placing virtual locations (like Pokestops or Arenas) at locations of interest. They can decide at which location along a path a user is traversing they would like a scan, by spawning a rare Pokemon that person is definitely going to attempt catching. They can make a Pokemon fly around you while trying to catch it in order to get you to perform a 360 scan of your environment, and so on...
In other words: They have millions of steerable agents out there distributed over the entire planet. And they are real people.
Professor built a Human-dex!
Gonna track ́em all!
This is why I will never buy a new car. GPS, multiple cameras, 4g access points, radar, and fly/drive by wire systems integrated with all of those things is a huge liability.
They're not satisfied with you "just" spending thousands of dollars in their product, they have to scrape every cent off of you by selling your data or even starting greedy subscription services locking off features already present in the car.
Just wait. The infrastructure bill has all American cars made 2026 and after to have cameras watching the drivers and other features to monitor you.
Another one is a patent ford just filed that will have all their new vehicles turned into speed monitoring systems for police. So if you pass a ford while speeding it will send your license plate and speed to the cops.
In 20 years theyll tell us elon had to use video cameras because the cars were a cia project he had little choice in and thats why that tesla on autopilot coasted straight into a giant deer standing still. To me i ride motorcycle its pretty sketch how the cia could be using elons tech if they want to apy on my specifically any time a tesla is behind it itll automatically recognize who i am and the feed juat goes in a file of all the times i ever drove infront of a tesla they be tryna use the time I switched lanes without a blinker to kneecap my election campaign simply because long ago the cia became out of control
@@TheAnnoyingBossWTF. You need some CIA help or something with your writing. I wouldn't want your representation; you can't form a thought.
@@Mis73rRand0m TH-cam really deleted my first message. So you guys are gonna have to look these 2 things up but it’s worth it.
1. The infrastructure bill and what that means for new cars made after 2026.
2. Fords new patent that has do with cameras on their new cars.
You have one thing wrong:
This data it's not being obtained by taking pictures without your permission.
It's being obtained through an explicit part of the game called "scanning", where you scan pokestops and gyms, creating a video of the area around them.
And AR pictures, where you take a picture of your Pokemon in front of the real world.
That's why they're open about it.
They are doing it WITH your permission.
If you make the mistake of scanning and doing AR stuff.
Yep, they don't need to sneak the pictures, they straight up ask you to take them in-game. And millions of people do.
@@JRM-VSR The scanning doesn't work with my phone for whatever reason, but they have mostly asked me to scan the parking lot at my work. Of all the insane and evil stuff the CIA does, I'm really not worried about this particular one.
Yeah, everyone is acting like it's some covert plot, when Niantic has always said that collecting and selling this kind of data is their major goal. They've always made it clear that they make games to collect data. None of this should be a surprise to anyone.
@@shockthetoast you think they were upfront about recording data from your own home and effectively mapping out rooms in your own home along with your behaviors? Lmfao
@@ministryofwrongthink6962 They aren't. This is only about scanning and mapping specific real world landmarks in the game. That's what the 3D maps are. If they are doing anything beyond that, it's not what this article is talking about...
the saddest part about the surveillance state we’ve been living in for the last 10-15 years is that no one cares, so we’re in FAR too deep for anything to change. things are about to rapidly ramp up over the next couple years. good luck.
This video serves as a great tutorial on how to stretch a grain of truth to its breaking point. The game asks you to make scans, and it doesn't sneak pictures, you literally take them yourself when photographing your Pokemon in AR mode. The CIA doesn't care about how often you go to the bathroom or where your sex dungeon is located. This is simply data taken from people walking around and scanning real world locations called Pokestops. They can string this together with location data and accelerometer data to create a 3d web of the Earth anchored by those individual Pokestops. The goal is eventually creating a global coordinate system that allows you to position things in virtual space and have them show up consistently in the same location when you look at the real world via AR applications. So to put it simply they want to be able to place something in virtual space so that when you hold up your phone camera you see it there anchored in the same location every time. Think of it like being able to build virtual billboards. In the future this map will be combined with wearable technology similar to Google Glass to show advertisements, virtual mascots, or even host remote virtual meetings in real space. Without this technology the locations of objects in virtual space could be off by as much as 20 ft.
Then be off by 20 ft. We can work with that.
Yeah, the cia is funding this stuff because they are so altruistic and interested in scientific and technological improvement of humanity. Just like with MK Ultra, they just wanted to help the people.
😂
Tim to re-install and continue poisoning the database.
This comment gives me hope.
Godspeed, soldier.
If this is what they are telling, what are they hiding ?
Should be clear with this though, they havent admitted to taking scans of things without user knowledge or input. The scans theyre describing when theyre “bragging” are user initiated scans of pokestops, which are locations approved by niantic to gather in game resources at. There is no user initiated scanning happening in your bathroom or house unless you somehow tricked niantic into allowing a pokestop where the “featured location” is a toilet.
Wherever a technology exists, someone will find a way to exploit it in ways previously not imagined. Even an innocent-seeming video game can be exploited, especially if the exploit is baked in.
I guess this explains why there’s a big trend and push for modern games to have login requirements, and for large publishers pushing developers to get away from standalone physical releases.
Nothing is sacred, this doesn't surprise me nearly as much as I feel like it should. Droves of people willingly walking around everywhere with active cameras, internet, cell signal and a GPS. They would be stupid to let such an opportunity go to waste.
Ah, this finally explains Niantic's strangely specific desire to mark and track religious institutions and those who go to them, per spot creation guidelines...
Each and every church is a pokemon stop...
OK... An actually fair and useful comment. Yeah is weird how they love religious locations, from the UK to Vietnam.
@@UmamiPapii realize that too and libraries and starbucks
Don't tell em about Google maps
Not only could they build 3D AI map they could probably (most likely) lock in any person’s phone and build patterns of their most traveled places. Then if they ever needed to scoop a person up they could use AI to pop out a list of places they are most likely to be at certain time of day. Think “Eagle Eye” movie but instead of an AI hacking cameras it’s is pattern recognition to deduce where/when to find person
Remember how Shias career went down the drain after he revealed an intelligence agent confessed the movie was real during an eagle eye press tour?
@@CoercedJabhe also went crazy, remember his mental breakdown after the election in 2016?
or drone you or have a full mapout of your house and your schedule before they raid you
And this wouldn’t be possible without just Google maps data?
This also explains Minecraft Earth. Two of the biggest video game franchises to make sure it gets onto everyone’s phones “consensually.”
: you work for CiA.
: no.
: you played Pokemon?
; yes.
: you worked for cia.
Not anymore.
I whish someone told me sooner, this is going to look amazing on my resume!
Where’s our check !!!! 😂😂😂
@@WrestleShadeTNS depend on where you stay, you may get 15 years, firing squad, or anything in between..
If something is free, you are the product being sold to someone.
"I just bought a flip phone. Why does it have a camera on it?"
"Well, it's not for you, silly!"
Electric tape your cameras I do it.
Everyone thought I was crazy, but they also had RED HOT batteries while playing such a small 'game'.
That's normal when you're using navigation and camera.
@@preciadoalex123 lololol yeah its totally normal for a small game to OVERLOAD your system and DRAW SO MUCH POWER it makes your phone unsafe to hold. Yeah completely normal... lololol
@@Hashashin_Fidayinyou also in the sun heating you phone
It's is not a small game at all. It's probably one of the most processor heavy games you can play on your phone because it uses every data service, camera, speaker, and constant video rendering with GPS data. Not sure how that constitutes a "small game" 🤷
@@michaelholt6274 The game is tiny, you walk around a google maps overlay and swipe up. There is no in depth mechanics to the game. Ive seen people play hacked versions to move around the world, its not a big game. Ive played more complex flash games in the 90s. You're right it does use all of those features...almost like they are the REAL features of the 'game'....Almost like you didnt watch this video either. How did they get the AI map? "Hmmm, my phone is red hot while looking at this jigglypuff, must be these next-gen graphics!! Derp!"
They know what the inside of my bathroom looks like.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
No worries they know the same about every bathroom equally at centimeter level accuracy
they know what my penis looks like, i thought it would be funny to watch a pokemon dance on my balls
All I can tell the CIA is: "enjoy"
I bet they can do some AI quantic cross-referential correlation analysis of the cinetica of how you've thrown your balls at unwitting pokefurries in the wild and estimate with a 3 sigma interval of confidence how you ply/wrap your toilet paper after a heavy chimichangas. _Maximum-likelihood-style._
“Editor’s note: We use player-contributed scans of public real-world locations to help build our Large Geospatial Model. This scanning feature is completely optional - people have to visit a specific publicly-accessible location and click to scan. This allows Niantic to deliver new types of AR experiences for people to enjoy. Merely walking around playing our games does not train an AI model.”
With centimeter level accuracy and an understanding of spacial reasoning, one could make AI steered bombs that walk around on legs, like the size of a cat or even smaller, and position them places. Awesome for an agency that sometimes assassinates people. Make a rat-sized, walking, climbing, crawling hand grenade and have it sneak into the embassy or hotel or office building and hide under the target's desk, then wait for somebody with the matching voice print to sit there, then let it explode.
You do know! 😄
Sad thing is, the people who built this got medallions, while you who said what they did got ridiculed.
That would draw too much attention. If some big bad wanted to kill you, they'd do it without drawing obvious attention.
An explosion is obvious that somebody was killed. A car crash is not.
Okay their scanning feature is a functionality in the game. You have to actually do a scan (around a pokestop). It isn’t an automated thing running in the background at all times.
Yeah and if you have an older phone like mine, it doesn’t even work. So all they’re potentially collecting from most users is GPS data which our phones already do.
There’s a truth to you and the YT author. I still see this video as “click bait”. He’s not telling us anything you wouldn’t know playing this absolute dumb game. I play it. It’s a distraction for me. It makes complete sense now why if you log out and log back in, AR is turned back on. But the app is disabled in having my camera or photos. Really, the other issue is Google and apple. So this is a kick in the bucket to me.
@@nickie17301you don’t understand neural networks, do you? It’s way, WAY more than your gps data 😂
Not surprised. I remember when it first came out most conspiracy folks were saying exactly this.
Also, remember when Facebook had the automatic facial recognition for tags in the 2010s, people said that was to enhance a database or algorithm too and I believe it.
It was 100x easier to catch them without the AR mode on. Their first mistake was not realizing my need to optimize my games lol.
Pokemon Go? More like Pokemon Glow.
At 10:06 This is the 'Scan Pokestop' feature in Pokémon Go. You hold your phones camera to a pokestop and record and upload a short video of the location of that pokestop. Pretty interesting info! Edit- to clarify I am criticizing his video but the info Niantic put out is interesting.
The whole article is only about this feature. This video is proving nothing, it's still a conspiracy theory 😅
Can’t believe this video has thousands of people believing this guy.
Oh look another influencer who can’t read and has never played the game that his video is about.😂
@@bubbleman91You're not addressing any of the claims. Why? There are a lot of questionable relationships and actions described in the video. Why are you so quick to defend it without merit?
@@rucker69 which claim? That the CIA invested in Niantic? Maybe that's true. But most of this video is him, talking about the article without understanding it.
@@bubbleman91why else do you think the CIA was behind it? If you believe that they were just trying to make a fun video game you are woefully ignorant.
Basically anyone playing Pokemon Go is a federal operative
The feds we made were the friends along the way.
Congratulations on your milestones! Looking forward to seeing you surpass 10K 👏🏼☺️
That's brilliant. Whenever they need some specific accurate data in some location they can just set there spawn point for rare Pokemons.
And whenever they need constant surivalliance of some place they can position a pokestop there. Kids being turned into CIA sleeper agents and people still believe in liberty 😂
Maybe the real treasure was the CIA Agent friends we made along the way.
Said the cow to the farmer
Hahaha yup. If it wasn’t for gangstalkers, we would t have any friends 😆
Maybe this is why they cracked down so hard on people spoofing GPS to play the game in a more fulfilling way… I know spoofers were still spending lots of money on the game (if not more than regular players), and that money still went to Niantic too, and yet Niantic would rather ban them… odd.
Why does any game ban cheaters if they're still paying for the game?
If you can answer that question, then there's your answer for your own question.
The user scans are not at all times, they are referring to the “AR scan” tasks you are able to complete in game for rewards. Outside of this or “AR Mode”, which are all voluntary things, they don’t use your camera. You quite literally know they’re doing this, it’s explained in-game, and it’s not some super secret thing. Are y’all truly this cooked mentally? You think the CIA would wait for Niantic to make this game to start using phone cameras for something like this? The only way you could avoid this type of thing, if you truly do care, is to either inhibit the phones cameras or to not have a smart phone to begin with. Good luck.
I'm pretty sure this is describing the "Scan a Pokestop" feature released in 2020. Not that it's constantly scanning. A feature that heavily bogs down the phone when being used and often doesn't even work properly. You would be able to notice if it was using that tech all the time.
The "Scan a Pokestop" feature (not where you spin the disk) was obviously an attempt at using what's known as photogrammetry to essentially 3D scan a model using multiple images taken at different angles. This is a technique used for 3D modeling without actually having a 3D scanner. Not the most accurate, but close enough for government work. **bedum tissss**
In reality, It probably isn't as nefarious as this video makes it sound like, but ALWAYS be leery of government funded projects... Especially when Google is involved.
And you are just scanning things that are already on Google Maps or some stupid stone or fountain or a sign post in the middle of a field. This would be the biggest fail in CIA history if it was true. Tracking people on the other hand...I could see that happening, but the phone could do that without a game anyways. This conspiracy doesn't make any sense.
@@aalert I think you're giving the CIA too much credit if you think THAT would be their biggest fail.
@@aalertI agree. I feel like this video is fear mongering for views. I’m not denying anything, I just don’t think it’s as serious as he’s making it sound.
I just don’t get the point of why the government wants to secretly scan me going to my local park// or to map my house.
@@GregAtlascould also refer to taking buddy pictures as you get a reward for taking a picture every day.
You ain’t living in reality if you’re that naive about its purposes 😂
The day the program came out, it was revealed the company was kickstarted by the CIA (they do this alot), and I felt from the beginning they were using the app to gather up to date photo data of random and little seen places for some kind of clandestine spying tool. KNEW IT!
"tHeRe'S rEaLlY gOoD pRiVaTcY oN sMaRtPhOnEs"
Lol, yeah no, I keep turning those settings off, but they ether keep giving me new ones, or can't even be turned off
Burner phones or bust. You never needed tiktok or anything else.
Dude, if you block the access to your phone and messaging apps on an android, you can't use them effectively bricking them
There’s no T in privacy
Dude the chip-sets have spyware BUILT INTO the chip lol.. its hilarious actually
My wife
In the game, you scan landmarks with your camera. That's what Niantic means when they say they are receiving pictures from the game. What about this implies that they are taking pictures at other times?
Yeah they are reaaaally into Big Ben and tge Eifeltower. Its a CIA owned corp. For fuggs sake. They aint interested in some landmarks.
I heard warnings of this when the game first came out
lol niantic had a game before they collabed with pokemon go called "ingress" that was basically a gamified territory control AR version of this, I'm not surprised
THIS WHY DOES NO ONE EVER MENTION INGRESS
I remember playing that game a lot. I even went to an event for it.
@@darklink01ika92 Nobody mentions it because it completely uses GPS, on a 2D (real world-based) map. It doesn’t use camera-based AR like Pokémon Go does.
So basically, it’s no more dangerous than using Google maps or Google earth.
10:35 It's really not like that at all. Pokémon GO has AR scan quests where you have to voluntarily scan and upload a video of your surroundings in particular places and you get an in-game reward for that. The game does not activate the camera by its own while you are walking.
The difference is that they only do it this way because the data gets too dirty otherwise. Millions of kids getting turned into sleeper agents for the CIA should beget more outrage and less apologizing on their part.
U keep believing that
You sweet summer child. You think C!A hands out medals for only getting voluntary data?
@@jonphotos8631 I use GrapheneOS on my phone and have stricter control on permissions. I can guarantee you that the only times the camera activates are: when I do AR activities, when I scan locations voluntarily and when I take irl photos of my Pokémon.
@@CoercedJab I don't know about that and I know the game has your GPS data all of the time, but the camera part is a hoax. You can even play without camera permissions, but you shoot yourself in the foot since without camera you can't play with your companion Pokémon and you can't access AR missions.
I would hazard a guess this has been going on with cellular phones for longer than Pokemon Go. That software was developed to refine what already existed.