‘Pokémon Go’: Government Surveillance App?

July 14th, 2016

For commentary on this, I’d mainly offer my 2012 piece: Ingress: Google’s Strange New Game

Flash forward to 2016 and Pokémon Go offers the same soft control, but now with mass appeal.

You might be thinking, mass appeal? What? With 10-year-olds?

It turns out that in the swipetarded zombie apocalypse, “Pokémon Go tops Twitter’s daily users, sees more engagement than Facebook.”

Who cares? What’s the point?

Essentially, spooks can get eyes-on places by directing swarms of zombies with mobile phones to seek out digital creatures and baubles at desired locations. Sure catch your Squirtle—while pointing your camera at a Hell’s Angels headquarters, for example.

*wink*

I’d also recommend my ancient (2007) post, The American Culture Bomb: Satire from the Onion and a Long Forgotten U.S. Army War College Essay, which is more important than ever.

“Our victims volunteer.”

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2 Responses to “‘Pokémon Go’: Government Surveillance App?”

  1. staticwave says:
    July 19, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    New Hampshire police use Pokémon Go to lure fugitives to headquarters

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/17/new-hampshire-police-pokemon-go-fugitives

    Pokémon Go: man quits job to become full-time Pokémon hunter

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/15/pokemon-go-man-quits-job-to-become-full-time-pokemon-hunter

  2. bloodnok says:
    July 21, 2016 at 6:40 pm

    People keep dropping lures on the Wellington waterfront. I bike along there on my way home each evening. Pre-pokemon there’d just be people walking down to the train station – and virtually nobody if the weather was grim. Now there’s anywhere from 50-100 people standing around staring at their phones, even if it’s 6°C and raining.

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