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Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] orgrinrt 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now hold on a moment, I think we need to at least discuss this whole removing France thing further…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It would be easy to accidentally wipe some other country instead of France. That's why we need to verify data

[–] orgrinrt 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can now see the importance of safeguards!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Yeah we need backup systems that automatically wipe out France