Putin is smart to ban Pokemon Go from invading Russia

Satellite costs money, and Pokemon Go allows CIA to monitor billion of people, cars, and houses in real time without additional cost. In fact, they are making money with this app. It is like making people pay for the CIA to monitor them.

@topffer Hardened criminals and terrorists will not play this game. That does not mean those gamers who are playing this game do not capture them when they are walking the street to hunt for Pokemon. They have to keep the phone in a kind of video mode that captures everything in front of them. If CIA knows the likely spots for the terrorists in a country that has Pokemon, they can just set a "lure" to lure the players to the area. When 60 players go there, it is very likely that one of the phones will show a known terrorist with his friends in a car, bus stop or restaurant or shopping mall.

@scheng1 Pokemon players that I cross have usually the eyes on their phone and the phone fixing the pavement. They are more at risk to be driven over by a car than to take a photo of the driver, but I agree that it might be possible to do something like this. But their privacy policy does not tell that they stock any picture, and due to the amount of data needed for pictures/videos, I think that it would be easy to detect it, and that many people would have already furnished evidences about that. However Niantic collects precise location information which might be a concern for privacy (when two phones are sleeping together, their owners are not far), but many applications are doing that.

This game requires the phone to send in the exact GPS in order to capture the image of the creatures in the phone. I think your husband probably will understand the technicality more than us.

@LadyDuck That is true. Now it is even worse. After you leave your car in the carpark, the phone will take over the spying to tell the government where exactly you are.

@scheng1 I understand too, do not worry. We are now all spied when we use the GPS in our cars.

@succeednow Putin surely has many spies within CIA. If he says so, he is likely correct. After all, Russia was and still is very well-known for the spying activities.

@scheng1 There may be suspicion all round due to these "connections" but does he have actual evidence that they are spying? A person is innocent unless proven otherwise.

No, it is not right to say that CIA made Pokemon Go. It was made by a man who worked in government before. He worked in "foreign affairs", and he started his first company with funding from CIA. CIA would never openly said that they are linked directly to this game. They do it through many layers, but the link is there.

@SIMPLYD This is really like the way they show in movies about CIA. The only thing that movies never show is that CIA has venture fund to invest in those companies that produce technology that it needs.

@scheng1 Oh i now understand .

Even with GPS and satellite, you cannot always see the street in real time. Those who play Pokemon Go have to keep the phone on, and the phone captures all the things in front of it. That means Pokemon Go forces the players to keep the phone on real time video mode. If the players switch off the function to use other functions of the phone, they will miss the creatures. If they have to keep the phone on a kind of real time video mode, they will not know if the data are remitted somewhere.

@scheng1 Do you have a credible cited source to show evidence of this? I apologize for my skepticism, but because of my religious upbringing alot of what's going on in the world has me on pins and needles... And with everyone blissfully unaware of big brother, won't be long before we start taking orders from some dude who insist that we get a funky tattoo to buy stuff.

Pokemon Stop

CIA definitely is involved in the beginning, and since Pokemon Go game must have the exact location of the player, it is not that far fetched to think about it as a spying tool. The concept is that the game opens up like a video recording, and put in a fiction character in the video. I think when you download the game, and starts to play, you will understand Putin's concern. he sure does not want his security guards to play this game, and let the game records all the details of his residence.

Do you know the reason @amnabas