Unwittingly? They paid you in-game currency to collect “research data”. What did people think they were doing?

Gonna end up having GPS telling me to drive into someone’s backyard because Pokemon Go put a Charizard in there.

Niantic always announced itself as a data company.

Um are we sure we want this data? Weren’t there some people who walked into traffic and fell down hills playing Pokémon Go?

It’ll be interesting to see a Waymo or Tesla FSD follow the path of a few Pokémon Go spoofers through buildings or directly across a field.