Title is pretty obvious with more than two seconds of thought, but I figured that it would be important to bring to everyone’s attention that Pokémon has confirmed (via this Youtube video) that Sleep does the following:
- Records audio of you (and your partner) sleeping
- Requires device sensor permissions to detect how your phone is laying
- Runs in the background as you sleep
You’ve seen this time and time again, I know. But most people don’t consider this, especially since Pokémon is considered to be childrens’ media. I haven’t seen any major news outlet cover the privacy implications of this game–please spread the word with people you know. This can’t keep happening.
What’s the point of this game, beyond letting them harvest user data to sell to data brokers? It doesn’t seem like this really integrates with Pokemon Go or the Switch games as far as syncing Pokemons between them, and anyone that actually cares about sleep tracking would be using their phone’s built-in health app or they’d have some top-rated sleep tracker from the app stores.
If it let you move Switch Pokemon over to be a day-care type thing while you sleep I could kinda see it having some use, but otherwise this just seems like shovelware with a Pokemon theme.
Pokémon fans would eat anything their company feeds them.