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Re:How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go player... by jackpirate on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:47PM (#21938361)
It's pretty easy to do something with that info. Let's say there's a pokestop on a military installation, then most visitors are likely to be military personnel, and now we have a list of phones of military personnel. What's more, we can learn which troops are deployed to which bases, and patterns about how troops get redeployed to different bases.

How is this useful? Well, it's well known that Ft. Meade in the US is an NSA outpost. If troops from Ft. Meade regularly get transferred to Camp Pendleton (chosen arbitrarily), then we can infer that there's likely to be a lot of SIGINT (electronic spying) activity at Camp Pendelton. For a smaller installation (say a covert safe house abroad), these sorts of clues may be the first signs that foreign intelligence agencies can use to detect that these bases even exist.

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Re:How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go player... by bllguo on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:43PM (#21938962)
ok.. and if one weren't military personnel? The original comment seemed to be raising some kind of unspecified fear about this in general, not just for a small segment of the population who frankly should know better.
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Re:How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go player... by core-questions on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:49PM (#21939028)
Well, one could get unsuspecting users to take pictures around all kinds of facilities and such. Consider too that if you have multiple databases of this sort, you can draw a lot of inferences based on who is usually around whom.
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Re:How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go player... by mzz80 on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:07PM (#21947815)
You still haven’t provided a reason why this is a bad thing. Ok, so there are unsuspecting users taking photos of the local YMCA facilities. What you’re talking about is similar to the social graph but on a much smaller scale. The only reasonable use is for advertising. The world’s not going to end.
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Re:How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go player... by jackpirate on Thursday January 02, 2020 @03:48PM (#21939646)
Foreign intelligence services are likely just as interested in hiring FAANG employees as they are soldiers. A compromised Googler could get them lots of access.
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