It is also worth addressing the fact that Niantic Labs confirm that it might be shared, in the future. There are two particular situations where your location could be given to a complete stranger: accessing gyms, or otherwise allowing a stranger to access your game, directly. So, in that sense, the game can reveal your location to others.Īt present, probably not, but mobile phones are not 100% secure 1, and there are a few minor situations where your location could be guessed. If I know who that trainer is in real life, I have also learned where they were a moment ago. From my living room I can see a very popular park several blocks away (there are four PokéStops in a tight square formation) - if I see a PokéStop light up with a fresh lure module, I can check the associated trainer name on the PokéStop. It can also be used to detect people from a distance, given that the in-game display shows quite a few blocks of territory on-screen. This can be used to associate an in-game name with an actual person (as with gyms, mentioned above), if only one person is physically near the PokéStop when it lights up. The game doesn't much affect your/their personal safety in that circumstance.Įdited to add: a similar slightly-remote-Intel situation works with Lure modules: one can see who placed a lure module on a PokéStop while the lure module is active (tap on the PokéStop, tap on the little white/pink lozenge that indicates the module is in place, and you'll get a detail screen listing the trainer name of the person who installed the module). But this isn't that big of a deal - I mean, you're already standing in public staring at that person, who is physically nearby. There are instances where someone can associate your in-game name with you personally - for example, you observe someone standing next to the location of a "Gym", with no one else around, and the gym suddenly changes teams, or has a new Pokémon added - you can see the in-game character name that effected the change, and that person who is the only human within 50 yards of the spot is very likely that in-game character.
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