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WarPokemon Go data could be used to train drones - Location scans from popular mobile game could be utilised to prevent GPS jamming during war
Data collected from Pokémon Go players have been used to train an AI model that could support military drones.
The software development company Niantic, which created Pokémon alongside Nintendo, collected location scan data from users after a 2021 update that introduced in-game incentives for scanning real locations with their phones.
The data were used to produce an AI model that allows navigation in the absence of a GPS signal, something which could now be put to use by Vantor, an American defence intelligence company, according to Trouw, a Dutch newspaper. Pokémon Go, a location-based 2016 mobile phone game that uses phone GPS to detect users’ positions, encourages players to “catch” and “train” virtual Pokémon characters found in their area. It uses a form of augmented reality in which the physical world is overlaid with interactive content.
After the 2021 adaptation to the game, millions of players scanned their streets, buildings, parks, trees and other environmental features to produce around 30 billion pieces of visual mapping data, according to the drone news website DroneXL. To submit the scans, users were required to opt in and permissions were sought. Pokémon Go had players scanning the streets, parks, and neighbourhoods to ‘catch’ and ‘train’ virtual Pokémon characters in the area
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Niantic Spatial, a spin-off company, transformed the scans into a vast 3D map to be used when satellite signals are unavailable, allowing machines to locate and navigate themselves by sight in the absence of GPS.
In December, they announced their partnership with Vantor, which specialises in spatial detection software for drones, including military UAVs.
“The partnership addresses a critical vulnerability in modern operations: GPS unavailability, spoofing, interference, and jamming,” said the announcement. “When satellite signals are compromised, autonomous systems and field teams lose their ability to orient, coordinate or maintain accurate situational awareness.”
The companies told Guardian Australia that ground scans from the game were not directly given to Vantor but instead were used to train Niantic’s foundation models.
A spokesman for Niantic Spatial told the outlet: “AR [augmented reality] scans collected through Pokémon Go were submitted voluntarily by players who opted into the feature and were subject to the applicable terms of service and privacy policy at the time.”
In February, Vantor was awarded a contract worth up to $217m (£162m) from the US army for training software.
GPS jamming and spoofing – where a counterfeit radio signal is emitted to suggest a false location – are used in a host of conflicts, including the Ukraine and Iran wars. They are designed to mislead kamikaze and reconnaissance drones as well as GPS-guided missiles.
The Visual Positioning System, an alternative to GPS, allows for determining location using a camera that matches what it observes against a pre-existing, detailed 3D model of the environment. It is immune to traditional signal jammers.
Niantic Spatial and Vantor have been approached for comment.
Shit was cooler when tech wasn't secretly tracking you and compiling military intelligence.
This thing only counted how many steps you took. And they weren't covert about their objectives, they were extremely overt about it. The whole point was to encourage kids to walk around. That was the only way to collect points to buy pikachu food and shit.
"You see, when you let them have access to your personal data, they can harvest it for monitary means to other companies and/or governments."
Wow, I couldn't have possibly have seen that comming, they had over a decade of data to harvest, any company would pay millions to have that level of detail about what people did with the product they used to harvest data with.
"You see, when you let them have access to your personal data, they can harvest it for monitary means to other companies and/or governments."
Wow, I couldn't have possibly have seen that comming, they had over a decade of data to harvest, any company would pay millions to have that level of detail about what people did with the product they used to harvest data with.
Why are generation Z going analog all of a sudden? If they don't buy the latest version of iPhone they won't have the upgraded bluetooth transmitter that'll map their surroundings in ultrahigh-pico-detail-resolution and transmitted that data back to CIA headquarters. How will our Hunter-Kill-Drones effectively oppress them without that data?!?!
Why are generation Z going analog all of a sudden? If they don't buy the latest version of iPhone they won't have the upgraded bluetooth transmitter that'll map their surroundings in ultrahigh-pico-detail-resolution and transmitted that data back to CIA headquarters. How will our Hunter-Kill-Drones effectively oppress them without that data?!?!
That has to be the explanation for smartphones. They subsidized the cost of leap-frogging from flip phones to smartphones to get enough of these devices spread out among the general public. Its a giant spy-net. Steve Jobs was in on it, tried to turn heel so they secretly injected him with ass-cancer...of the ass.
Pokemon Go was the next step. Getting millions of retards to film their surroundings compulsively so they could use that footage to map the world.
Shit was cooler when tech wasn't secretly tracking you and compiling military intelligence. Ver archivo adjunto 9146631
This thing only counted how many steps you took. And they weren't covert about their objectives, they were extremely overt about it. The whole point was to encourage kids to walk around. That was the only way to collect points to buy pikachu food and shit.
