ok, my next business card is going to say "Minister, High Council of Virtual Places" (with a foot note "and virtual responsibilities.")<p>Pretty clear though that if you are playing Pokemon Go, and your actual identity is attached to your account, then there is a way for Niantic to tell someone where your are right now, and where you have been.<p>Given enough adoption in the population, that data set could be used to illuminate organizations and memberships which might otherwise be considered classified. Both for players, and for non-players.[1]<p>[1] Examples are available in the literature where people using good OpSec were identified by employees who did not.
As a Iranian I can always clearly see how foreign analyzers, do analyze Iran issues from wrong perceptive.<p>The regime is afraid of peoples life style change. They do know if people life style changes toward western culture then they have no place to rule.<p>Any banning, suppression / etc you can see from Iran regime is because of this. They block access to YouTube, satellite, porn, Facebook, etc, not because they think these things are wrong. They do it just because people must not become familiar with western life style.<p>"If they become familiar, they will understand Islam,tradition,etc is bullshit and if status quo changes ,then we don't have any place to rule"<p>P.S. I live in Iran right now and I always track political analysis about Iran regime.
Israel also shares this concern, apparently: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/01/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-pokemon-go.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/01/world/middleeast/...</a>
For a long time they didn't know why or if they should ban it. They simply didn't know what to expect of it is open to public so they banned it.<p>How China is dealing with this? Are they allowing people to play Pokemon Go?