The Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now They're Mapping You kotaku.com

Hanke described a world where people can better navigate public transit and understand their surroundings because of digital mapping initiatives like Niantic.
By April of 2004, before Keyhole was even acquired by Google, Google was looking into marketing Google’s Search by Location function to advertisers.
A map created with points of location data collected by Niantic from a Harry Potter: Wizards Unite player.
Crucially, each request also contained a large file of timestamped location data, as latitudes and longitudes.
And in 2018, a New York Times investigation found that, when provided raw anonymized location data, companies could identify individuals with or without their consent.