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In the Pokemon world it's generally accepted that your Pokemon/Pokeballs are registered to your Trainer ID. This allows you to transfer Pokemon into and out of Boxes. But what do evil teams like to do a lot? Steal Pokemon.
Now, if you live in the US and have ever called the cops to report something, you'll know that they get your location worryingly fast using your phone's GPS. I was thinking, what if this technology could be applied to Pokeballs? As soon as you report your Pokemon stolen, you give the cops your trainer ID, and they track them down using geolocation data from the Pokeball. Your Pokeball basically becomes an Airtag and it will be easy to recover because the criminals have nowhere to hide, they either abandon the Pokeball or transfer it to an empty one.
What if this were taken further? Imagine owning a gun that logged when, where, and how much you shot it, and also registered the fingerprint of anyone who touched it. Murder would be impossible to get away with (even using gloves wouldn't work, because the fingerprint data would not add up). What if Pokemon were biometrically tagged so that even transferring them to another Pokeball didn't work to steal them from their original owner?
The flip side of this is that it raises massive privacy concerns. You’ve basically got a tracking device on you at all times. Perhaps Poke-VPNs will be made to mask the location of your Pokeballs as a plugin. Maybe untraceable (and legal or not) Pokeballs will arise for the privacy minded. Maybe chips and biometric data can be hacked and disabled or rerouted. It’s a never ending dystopian technological arms race that only encroaches on civilian privacy. Of course, all of this implies that any party involved is competent enough to track or bypass location data.
Then it hits you that you already carry a tracking device with you, and that you can put a chip in your dog to know its location.
Also here’s Alex’s belt updated to have Cherish Balls.