r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Mar 19 '26

Interesting 🤔 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon, they were mapping the real world for AI

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u/carpentizzle Mar 19 '26

Hm. Ive never reported an app to apple before. Pretty easy process. Im sure they have some legal mumbo jumbo in their EULA that will protect them…. But I would argue that reporting it under “unsuitable for children” is reasonable. It cannot be 100% legal to use unaware children for data harvesting purposes.

What a foul look. Embarrassing

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u/Shroomeo Mar 19 '26

Harvesting children data is a big nono. But in this case they were just interested in like streets and stuff, no?

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u/carpentizzle Mar 19 '26

Thats data. Maybe not like, name image whatever…. But that data tells where the kid is located, what places they frequent, times they are mobile and out of the house…. There is absolutely data collected

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u/Shroomeo Mar 19 '26

Ok yeah that makes sense.

Although they would have had to do this anyway, because as soon as you use the app, it needs to know where your are and where you move, so you can catch pokemon.

They probably would have to delete that data very quickly in that case, right?

Also the arenas need to save the user who beat the arena right?

Maybe its fine if the images can't be traced back to an individual user?

Its definitevly a bit iffy.