New York wants to stop sex offenders from playing ’Pokémon Go’
▻http://mashable.com/2016/08/01/pokemon-go-sex-offenders
[The governor] sent a letter to John Hanke of Niantic Inc., the CEO of the company behind Pokémon Go, that asked for help in banning sex offenders from using the game.
Niantic will receive a list of identified sex offenders, information that is also shared with tech giants like Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, the letter reads.
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the state-sponsored investigation found that popular areas for gameplay, such as pokéstops and gyms, were near the houses of registered sex offenders. Of 100 sex offenders’ addresses, 73 of them were within a half-block of a Pokémon Go-related activity.