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Pentagon’s Pokémon orders: game must go (outside) for security reasons:

Anyone working at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of the US Department of Defense searching for Squirtles and Snorlaxes on the Pokémon Go app has been told to do it outside the building, according to a memo obtained by the Washington Times.
As of a few weeks ago, there was even a “gym” – where Pokémon Go players can fight and train their virtual pets – inside the Pentagon. But the idea of staff playing a game that meticulously tracks the location of every player appears to have worried the largest military in the world.
Given the rules of Pentagon tours – no cellphones – the only people who would have been able to compete in the gym while it existed were employees. Defense officials were concerned that players inside their facilities could be tracked via the game, potentially giving away the location of rooms, and that information accessed by the game could be stolen by foreign spies.

Source: theguardian.com