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How Pokémon Go players unknowingly trained military drones: ‘I was just playing a game’ (www.trouw.nl)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1185607/how-pokemon-go-players-unknowingly-trained-military-drones-i-was-just-playing-a-game

Players of the game Pokémon Go scanned their environment for years for extra points. With the help of these billions of scans, an extremely precise navigation system has now been developed for military drones and robots, among others.

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[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think that would change anything. The valuable part is the collected data. Even if the way that data is collected is open source or even if the data itself is open source, the issue is misusing that data.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

When you're in control of the software you can decided what it does: what data should be sent back (if any). Here a server hoster may refuse you if you do not collect data but that's a much harder sell when all users are in control.

[Even harder when the server code is also freed, and anyone can host it]