The Pokemon Go app is available for download in the Google Play app store for Android devices.
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The game, which marries Pokemon, the classic 20-year-old cartoon franchise, with augmented reality, allows players to walk around real-life neighborhoods while seeking virtual Pokemon game characters on their smartphone screens – a scavenger hunt that has earned enthusiastic early reviews. But that’s enough for an intelligence agency to tap into the servers of a company with a game just went viral in a Pokemon Go kind of way to dig up data about users. Try to access this link into Google Play.
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Arab Police want to remind players that while they might find Pokemon at public places like the police department, it’s not always necessary to go inside. The game has even helped to uncover a dead body.
“Pokemon GO” has been getting players physically walking around their towns and general vicinity to capture Pokemon, fight amongst each other and secure domination of their respective Gyms.
He added that most visitors stay on the sidewalk or stand in the park across the street, and none of them have come inside the wrought iron gate surrounding his property.
A Democratic U.S. senator on Tuesday asked the software developer behind Nintendo Co Ltd’s Pokemon GO to clarify the mobile game’s data privacy protections, amid concerns the augmented reality hit was unnecessarily collecting vast swaths of sensitive user data.
Meanwhile cases of armed robberies and injuries involving Pokemon Go players have also been reported.
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“Our corner was essentially lit up all day long”, Derek Fridman, the executive creative director of Huge, told The Associated Press.
