People are undoubtedly a little alarmed at having unwittingly helped build a 3D map of the world for Niantic by contributing 30 billion crowdsourced images. I interviewed Niantic's CTO Brian McClendon about exactly this in a TED interview last year — he's also the guy who… https://t.co/x6u9ZtjHK9 pic.twitter.com/uDLesrGWW5
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) 16 mars 2026
People are undoubtedly a little alarmed at having unwittingly helped build a 3D map of the world for Niantic by contributing 30 billion crowdsourced images. I interviewed Niantic's CTO Brian McClendon about exactly this in a TED interview last year — he's also the guy who