30 billion Pokémon Go scans quietly trained navigation tech now headed for military drones (dronexl.co)
The footage flowed from Niantic's players to its spatial-mapping arm, then into a December partnership with Vantor, a defense contractor on a $70M contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Players had signed away a "transferable, sublicensable license." The thread's bitterest voices weren't shocked — Niantic traces back to a CIA-funded mapping startup. They'd called it years ago, and scanned dirt to poison the data.
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