Link to the article
We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.
I have been telling people for years that the company behind Pokemon Go had no-shit, for-realsies ties to the CIA and people never really took it that seriously. Anyway.
prev tags is a good tl;dr of what scanning means
So I don't play Pokémon Go anymore bc I got bored of it but I've had it clarified for me that "Scopely, in the year since acquiring Pokemon Go, stopped the AR scanning tasks and removed them from the game. Players are not adding to the database, that's already been sold."
(That's a quote from someone who still plays and knows the ins and outs of what's going on.)
So, yes that happened but a new company now runs the game and it is not still happening.
