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

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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