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A Facebook user Chuck De Jarnett published a reproduced claim on 16^th July 2016 and indicated that the famous accelerated reality game Pokemon Go is designed by Trojan horse in order to mobilize users to famous Google Maps by uploading their videos of homes, yards and other various places they visit. It has also been used in providing their private information to the National Security Agency. His post was deleted or locked by someone, but it was widely circulated on social media network by copying its text and capturing screenshots. De Jarnett also shared publicly another video item, it had some similarity related to this news story, but falsely declared that the app was a tricky ambush to let players involved.

We tried to find out its authenticity from Google about the original claim that Google and Niantic are using Pokemon Go to collect more data for Google Maps. The spokesperson replied and confirmed that there is not any kind of relationship between Google and Niantic. Players are still conscious regarding the possible check to disable the accelerated reality feature of the game in order to protect any kind of recording. The representative of Niantic confirmed that any kind of image or data from this game was not stored for Google Maps. Google and Niantic are different companies and the users can turn off AR mode or turn off their camera during playing this game.