You know that old flip-phone you have in your junk drawer....get it out, charge it up and put it back in service.
That game that the kids and teens play - Pokemon Go? Where they use the GPS to capture characters, can take photos of the place and show their friends?
It was developed by the guy that developed Google Earth. Both Google Earth and Pokemon Go received some funding from the government via a Venture Capital Firm associated with the CIA. The government says that investing in it is to determine the ability of the Pokemon Go features and applications in surveliance - but what if it is already the surveliance.
In the small print lawyer talk in the link it has the following:
“According to the Pokémon Go privacy policy, Niantic may collect — among other things — your email address, IP address, the web page you were using before logging into Pokémon Go, your username, and your location. And if you use your Google account for sign-in and use an iOS device, unless you specifically revoke it, Niantic has access to your entire Google account....
It also may share this information with other parties, including the Pokémon Company that co-developed the game, “third-party service providers,” and “third parties” to conduct “research and analysis, demographic profiling, and other similar purposes.”
It also, per the policy, may share any information it collects with law enforcement in response to a legal claim, to protect its own interests, or stop “illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity.”