Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Jul 23, 2016 3:13:34 GMT -5
I'm not the type of guy to judge people on their hobbies. But there's something honestly unsettling about seeing full grown adults playing Pokemon Go in public. These people walk around glued to the phone in the streets seemingly not even looking where they're going or aware of their surroundings. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Pokemon Go is a surveillance app created using technology Niantic is using that was originally developed by the American CIA (Central Investigation Agency):
"Way back in 2001, Keyhole, Inc. was founded by John Hanke (who previously worked in a “foreign affairs” position within the U.S. government). The company was named after the old “eye-in-the-sky” military satellites. One of the key, early backers of Keyhole was a firm called In-Q-Tel.
In-Q-Tel is the venture capital firm of the CIA. Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency. Much of the funding purportedly came from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The NGA handles combat support for the U.S. Department of Defense and provides intelligence to the National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA, among others.
Keyhole’s noteworthy public product was “Earth.” Renamed to “Google Earth” after Google acquired Keyhole in 2004."
If you choose to use this app, you should do so with the awareness that it's well within the realm of possibility that the CIA is using it to monitor you, or at the very least is capable of doing so if need be. They even have a clause in the TOS of Pokemon Go that states the company is essentially willing to share all the information on your phone they have access to, "if they deem is necessary". This is a VERY open ended clause, essentially saying, "We have full access to almost all the information on your phone, where you are, what both of your cameras are seeing, how fast you're moving, your contact information etc. And we are completely willing to share all of this information with whichever parties we want, be they third party, the government of the US, Google, etc. And by playing Pokemon Go at all, you've agreed to this.
Now keep in mind I'm already well known as a paranoid person. However I'd say just seeing how this game has affected people's psyche on a mass scale is somewhat absurd, if not terrifying. I've been playing video games for 20 years, I've never seen anything like this. This is not the way people react to conventional video games. Augmented reality was a mistake.
"Way back in 2001, Keyhole, Inc. was founded by John Hanke (who previously worked in a “foreign affairs” position within the U.S. government). The company was named after the old “eye-in-the-sky” military satellites. One of the key, early backers of Keyhole was a firm called In-Q-Tel.
In-Q-Tel is the venture capital firm of the CIA. Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency. Much of the funding purportedly came from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The NGA handles combat support for the U.S. Department of Defense and provides intelligence to the National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA, among others.
Keyhole’s noteworthy public product was “Earth.” Renamed to “Google Earth” after Google acquired Keyhole in 2004."
If you choose to use this app, you should do so with the awareness that it's well within the realm of possibility that the CIA is using it to monitor you, or at the very least is capable of doing so if need be. They even have a clause in the TOS of Pokemon Go that states the company is essentially willing to share all the information on your phone they have access to, "if they deem is necessary". This is a VERY open ended clause, essentially saying, "We have full access to almost all the information on your phone, where you are, what both of your cameras are seeing, how fast you're moving, your contact information etc. And we are completely willing to share all of this information with whichever parties we want, be they third party, the government of the US, Google, etc. And by playing Pokemon Go at all, you've agreed to this.
Now keep in mind I'm already well known as a paranoid person. However I'd say just seeing how this game has affected people's psyche on a mass scale is somewhat absurd, if not terrifying. I've been playing video games for 20 years, I've never seen anything like this. This is not the way people react to conventional video games. Augmented reality was a mistake.
