Have you ever had any ideas on how #PokemonGo got so huge popularity, can you be sure that it'll always be used as intended? It's not a secret that this game is backed by #Google, one of the dominant companies in internet market.
There are tons of publicly available information that proves close cooperation between google and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). At least it worth to read INSURGE INTELLIGENCE report, that tells how intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated #Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’ These data can be easily "googled", so I will drill down.
#Niantic, Inc was founded by John Hanke who also established Keyhole, Inc. - project for Earth mapping, acquired by the same Google. Google maps, Google Earth, Google-Streets were created on the basis of Keyhole technologies. Now, watch the hands! Keyhole, Inc was co-sponsored by a venture capital Fund In-Q-Tel, officially established as a division of CIA in 1999. This fund invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency equipped with the latest information #technologies.
Thus using developments of keyhole, Google solved urgent problems of continuous terrain mapping, including roads, bases, etc. (sometime even kilometer-resolution maps used to be considered as strategic and confidential...). Google Street cars-robots are looking through all over the alleys, cars, faces, they are recording our cities... However, there is one problem. How to peek into our homes, basements, tree-lined avenues, barracks, a Federal office and so on, down the list?
And guess what?
The same old Google and Niantic Labs released genius viral toy, the latest technology of augmented reality. As soon as you download the app and give it the appropriate privileges (access to camera, microphone, gyroscope, GPS, connected devices, including the USB, etc.), your phone immediately will vibrate, informing you about the presence of the first three #pokémon! (The first three always appear immediately and nearby). The game requires to shoot them on every side, happily rewarding you with the first achievement, but at the same time it gets a photo of the room where you are, including position and attitude of the phone. Congratulations to you! You have just taken a picture of your apartment! Want me to explain further?
By the way, installing the game you agree to the terms of Service, which are barely simple. Niantic officially warns: "We may also consult and cooperate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute users who violate the law".
We may disclose to them any information about you or your child...
But who ever reads this extensive legal text?
Meanwhile, the terms also claim: "our program is not able to fulfill "Do not track" query of your browser, so it watched and will keep watching you!
Projects total awareness was launched by the CIA in the early 2000-ies. Game Pokemon Go is a new step in the development of the information-gathering system. It not only can collect the necessary information about the objects and people but also manipulate their minds. These games actually are able to mix up fiction and reality in human minds. According to its evolution, it will be able to send commands of total submission to specific person.
So, additionally to voluntary and joyful mapping of everything around, another fun opportunity has opened up. For example, you want someone you know to find out what is going on in the building (what's about State Duma?), and dozens phones of deputies, cleaners, journalists are vibrating : "Pikachu is next to you!!!". And happy citizens will get their smartphones, activating cameras, microphones, GPS, gyroscopes and spun in place, staring at the screen loading data channels by terabytes of video stream... Bingo! The world has changed.
Welcome to a new era of Covert Surveillance!
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Alex Smirnov
This post is a continuation of my story "THOUGHTS on Real Purposes of PokemonGo or Why This Game is a Dangerous Weapon of 21st Century!"