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Pokémon Go Is an Orwellian CIA Government Surveillance Psyop

• The Daily Sheeple

Editor's Note: While this is creepy on its own, as a parent, this is ten times as creepy. They sucker children in imaginative characters and then use it to feed off their data like vampire leeches.

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Via Gawker:

Pokémon Go is turning us all into an army of narcs in service of the coming New World Order. Allow me to explain.

Lots of apps have sketchy privacy policies, that's nothing new. But the first set of alarms go off as soon as you realize that Pokémon Go's policy does seem a bit more liberal than most, because not only are you giving Pokémon Go access to your location and camera, you're also giving it full access to your Google account (assuming you use that to sign in).

There's one section of the privacy policy in particular that seems to be getting the conspiracy theorists of the world up in arms and which Reddit user Homer_Simpson_Doh calls "very Orwellian":

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Most Orwellian of all is this line:

We may disclose any information about you (or your authorized child) that is in our possession or control to government or law enforcement officials or private parties.

As TechCrunch explained, Pokémon-loving millennials are far less likely to object to a few extra permissions when its Squirtle staring them in the face as they abandon their every god-given freedom than they do when Google reads their email.

And it's not like Pokémon Go itself doesn't already have a direct(-ish) line to the CIA.

1 Comments in Response to

Comment by foundZero
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This game that is taking youth by storm is kinda freaky but not new freaky. It's the same freaky taken to deeper levels. First thing, this isn't a "Google spinoff". This app is utterly dependent upon the Google ecosystem. The first tip is you log in with your Google account. Next tip is the "app" is a bunch of data points on Google Maps/Earth. Yup, your Pokeymon is just a bunch of data points on a map that interacts with your user profile. It's all just data on Google's platforms. So now the "literati" are freaking out because "this app has access to all your Google and your Gmail and your Andriod and your chats and your selfies of you on the pooper but sorry, THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT. What's freaky is two-fold: on the one hand people still think all this neat "free software" is actually free (it's not, you are selling them your data) and on the other hand, parents accept this as good for kids with absolutely no consideration or forethought.



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