Pokmon Go Is Using Your Children As Walking Ad Revenue: PetitionBy Kevin Samson There is of course the standard tracking that any use of a smartphone will carry with it; but even by those egregious parameters, Pokmon Go takes an extra step toward fully integrating the user (and all of their contacts) into a literal matrix of mapping and surveillance. Moreover, James Corbett recounts what appears to be a nefarious genesis for the app in his article The CIAs Pokmon Go App is Doing What the Patriot Act Cant: The maker of the app? Niantic Labs. Never heard of them? Thats because until last year they were an internal start-up of none other than Google, the NSA-linked Big Brother company. Even now Google remains one of Niantics major backers. Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who also founded Keyhole, Inc., the mapping company which was created with seed money from In-Q-Tel, the CIAs venture capital arm, and which was eventually rolled into Google Maps. This synthesis of location-based data and a company with strategic interests in monetizing that data was recently highlighted by none other than Oliver Stone: Nobody has ever seen in the history of the world something like [former Niantic owner] Google. Its the biggest, new, fastest growing business ever. And they have invested a huge amount of money into, what surveillance is, data mining. Theyre data mining every single person in this room for information as to what youre buying, what you like, above all, your behavior. So Pokmon Go kicks into that. Its everywhere. Its what some people call surveillance capitalismits the newest stage. (Source) What Stone refers to as surveillance capitalism is actually part of an incredibly complex and long-term agenda that combines everything from energy services, stock markets, climate data, happiness, news services and more into an artificial intelligence economy of the future. I would encourage readers to visit the article archive of Julie Beal to get a better sense of the scope into whichPokmon Go fits perfectly. Essentially, it means turning people into algorithms for data harvesting and extraction. All of the above is bad enough when applied to adults who presumably have obtained a level of knowledge that can breed skepticism about what they are being offered, but the exploitation of children is universally considered to be the very lowest depths of evil. Recognizing this literal luring that is being employed by the Pokmon Go app to catch children, an advocacy organization called Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) has launched a petition calling on Niantic, Inc., to cease delivering children into the hands of sponsors and advertisers: Pokemon GO is a location-based augmented reality (AR) game which requires players to visit specific real world placescalled PokeStops and Pokemon Gymsin order to capture, battle, and train virtual creatures. Niantic says Pokemon GO encourages players to Get Up, Get Out, and Explore. But Niantic is selecting some PokeStops and Gyms based on paid sponsorships, using the games incredible appeal to entice customers to brick and mortar establishments, and McDonalds is one of the first sponsors. In Japan, every McDonalds is already a Pokemon GO hot spot. Once children playing the game arrive at the restaurant, theyre enticed to buy Happy Meals with Pokemon GO toys. No child should be lured to McDonalds or any other sponsors establishment while playing Pokemon GO, said Josh Golin, Executive Director of CCFC. If Niantic wants to cash in on the games enormous popularity by herding players to its sponsors locations, it should exclude children from this type of marketing. Added Angela J. Campbell, Georgetown Law Professor and CCFC Board Member, It is the height of hypocrisy for Niantic to tout Pokemon GO as a means to get children outside, then use the game to sell Happy Meals. (Read Full Petition Here) Pokmon Go could become an important test case to see how quickly and completely people will accept a future of augmented reality. Every major tech company is betting big that it will be the next killer app. But this future could become an exponential nightmare that fundamentally transforms human behavior. Now is the time to share this information and educate friends and family that this is definitely not a game. Other sources: http://www.vox.com/2016/7/12/12158372/pokemon-go-ios-android-game-questions Kevin Samson writes for selfnewsPost.com. This article may be republished in part or in full with author attribution and source link. That screen is pretty obnoxious to me. All that flashing crap, how can anyone be aware of there surroundings? Read about Niantec being a spin-off of gubment run Google the other day once you make that connection the agenda is clear as day. People are starting to understand that all this new digital technology is a threat to Liberty, thats why digital banking like Apple Pay isnt catching on. The powers that be got over-confident when they had this way of seemingly controlling the masses, all of a sudden these authoritarian fools started having Delusions of Grandeur like controlling peoples mobility, micro-chipping people, controlling their bank accounts, even immortality for the elitists, and of course the gimp authoritarian-leaning freaks in Silicon Valley were happy to sell the old school elites a bill of goods. The funny thing is these elitists are the only ones buying their own BS 95% of the hype about Pokeman Go is made up by the establishment media. Disgusting the lot of them, they should all be prosecuted under the RICO Act because they have colluded on all sorts of serious crimes like mass surveillance and pushing NWO globalist agenda and shredding the Constitution, really what they are doing is High Treason. 