Niantic to begin collecting 3D visual data from pokemon go players
Niantic founder and CEO, and creator of Pokemon Go, John Hanke, speaks during a keynote speech on the second day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelonaon on February 28, 2017.
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The move is likely to be the subject of privacy concerns as Niantic collects and sophisticatedly interprets rich user data. Confining the data collection to locations specifically designated as a PokéStop and Gym will allow Niantic to minimize the chances they are collecting visual data from private locations, like inside someone’s home. The feature will be opt-in for players, at least initially. Data uploaded to Niantic’s servers will also be anonymized and visual data, including faces and license plates, will be blurred automatically, the company says.
This announcement comes just two months after Niantic’s acquisition of AR startup 6D.ai, which had professed to be building out a crowdsourced 3D map of the world.
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