20 July 2026

Smartphone capturing an augmented reality scan of a city street, illustrating spatial data collection for AI training

When Catching Pokémon Becomes Training Data for War: What the Niantic-Vantor Story Teaches Us About Data Protection

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Few stories illustrate the gap between “what data subjects think they agreed to” and “what actually happens to their data” as vividly as the one that broke in June 2026. Millions of people who spent years scanning parks, murals and landmarks to catch Pokémon on their smartphones have discovered that those scans didn’t stay in […]

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Close-up of a woman's wrist wearing a fitness tracker at a kitchen table, illustrating everyday wearable data collection

Who knew you were pregnant before you did?

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Who knew you were pregnant before you did? There’s a story doing the rounds this week about a woman whose fitness tracker flagged her pregnancy weeks before a test did. Elevated resting heart rate, a shift in temperature, the usual pattern. It’s a nice human interest story, and it’s also, if you sit with it

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