The CIA’s ‘Pokémon Go’ App is Doing What the Patriot Act Can’t : The Corbett Report
by James Corbett
Privacy advocates (that’s establishment speak for “normal human
beings”) celebrated earlier this week as the House rejected yet another
attempt to expand the Patriot Act’s snooping provisions. House
Resolution 5606, better known by its Orwellian name, the “Anti-terrorism Information Sharing is Strength Act,”
would have allowed Big Brother to access Americans’ financial
information based on what the government deems to be “suspicious
activity.” Given that the DHS has labeled such things as using binoculars, paying with cash, or even “appearing normal”
as “possible terrorist activity” in the past (thus making pretty much
every human being a possible terrorist), everyone can breathe a sigh of
relief that the bill failed.
But don’t breathe that sigh too deeply, because exactly as that
threat to privacy was being extinguished, another one was rising to take
its place. It goes by the name of “Pokémon Go” and it is a so-called
“augmented reality” game that allows users to capture, train and battle
virtual Pokémon by chasing them around through real world environments
with your smart phone.
