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Bender • today at 1:42 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

How many wearing those will be unwittingly participating in yet another (Niantic) Pokemon Go mapping experiment?

Niantic Spatial mapped over 30 billion real-world images and street scans from millions of players visiting public parks, sidewalks, murals, statues, and general urban landmarks featuring over 1 million distinct mapped locations including many government and military installations.

Or might this become a case of some AI app on the phone summarizing everything the user is looking at and doing?

Tue Nov 10 15:18:58 UTC 2026: User is staring intently into the eyes of a sheep.

Tue Nov 10 15:20:07 UTC 2026: >smart-watch< User heart rate increasing.