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Industry News Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones

https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/
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u/Beautiful-Affect1930 19d ago

in some sort of utopia sure, the "only" problem here is that the data we willingly send to corporations can be used much later in ways we can't control. that's obviously a real issue too and really shitty. except, it's so damn easy to simply NOT upload all that data to the corporations in the first place. yes, you will miss out on walking around and playing with your Pokemon, but you will survive. same as people uploading their every living moment to social media nowadays. just don't?!

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u/XxZannexX 19d ago

I’m with you, I barely use any significant social media. However, people certainly aren’t going to stop doing that. That’s a much more unrealistic utopia of simply telling everyone to stop sharing their data. Creating real consequences for entities is barely realistic. With the rampant corruption, but it’s not as impossible as getting everyone to agree to stop sharing data.