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from the how-about-being-aware-of-your-surroundings-instead? dept.
An unexpected catch:
In an informal investigation by Senators Jeffrey D. Klein and Diane J. Savino, staff members took a list of 100 registered sex offenders across New York City and compared it with locations where Pokémon Go players could collect virtual items or use other game features.
In 59 cases, those locations were within half a block of offenders' homes. The staff members, who played the game for two weeks, also found 57 Pokémon — which appear on players' phones as if they exist in the real world — near the offenders' homes, according to a report the senators released on Friday. Such overlap has been reported in other states, including California and North Carolina.
In New York, those discoveries prompted Mr. Klein, a Democrat who represents parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, and Ms. Savino, a Staten Island Democrat, to propose two pieces of legislation, scheduled to be introduced next week.
The first would prevent moderate or high-risk sex offenders from playing so-called augmented-reality games — like Pokémon Go — and the second would require the games' creators to cross-reference their virtual landscapes with lists of offenders' homes and remove any "in-game objective" within 100 feet of them.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday August 01 2016, @06:58PM
Other people have claimed that your idea of a sex offender doesn't match the people they put on the list. I've certainly heard of cases where that isn't true, but I don't know how frequent that is. Still, an 18 year old who dates a 17 year old would not, for that, be considered a sex offender in any reasonable society. And that doesn't count as violating anyone else's self-sovereignty.
You might consider that inflammatory labels are often put on people which have little relation to what the people actually are. And this may be often done by those with authority just as an exercise of authority, to make them feel important. (There may be other reasons, but sometimes I can't imagine any that aren't even more despicable.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.