[DennisP]

> obvious what it does, and I think the game even tells you that they want to understands how the POI looks like in 3D.

But most people probably assumed the purpose was to improve the game, not to train delivery robots.

Or whatever else they end up doing with the data. If, as the article suggests, this ends up adding to the surveillance state by making geolocation of photos more accurate, then I really don't think that's what the players had in mind.

[abroszka33]

I'm pretty sure that by now almost everybody know that anything you put online is monetised. I'm also 100% sure they sell my location data as well. I just don't care. Not my responsibility to stop it.