Let's rewind to 2016. Kids and teenagers locked to their phone screens as the sun sets in F-10 Markaz Islamabad while cafes in Brooklyn are serving breakfast. The picture is identical. The glowing screens capturing all the attention, as people curiously search for virtual balls containing digital monsters. Yes, I'm talking about Pokemon GO, a game that went viral back then. It sounds quite harmless. But have you ever wondered what happened to all those millions of hours of visual data that we fed into our screens?

Now shift the view to 2026. The same F-10 Markaz and the same streets of Brooklyn. However, something feels different now. While we were busy "catching 'em all", the data we generated has now morphed into a threat capable of impacting National Security. Something that can even form the basis of a 21st century warfare.

Recent reports have verified that the developer of this game, Niantic, utilised billions of user scans to........

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