Thursday, July 14, 2016

What can you do when Pokémon Go decides your house is a gym?

Date published: 
July 12, 2016

""This is a kind of a novel problem," says Ryan Calo, who teaches cyber and privacy law at the University of Washington’s school of law. Usually, a digital platform isn’t responsible for what its users do — whether it’s something as mild as posting inflammatory comments on a message board or as extreme as following an explosives recipe on a website. Neither is a game. But Pokémon Go isn’t just offering information, it’s actively creating a system that encourages people to visit certain locations to participate.



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on July 12, 2016 at 10:00AM

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