Also during the early hours of the European night, Niantic rel | Ingress Updates [ENG]

Also during the early hours of the European night, Niantic released an update on their blog, regarding anti-cheating efforts in their games.

According to the post, since the start of 2020, more than 5 million punishments were issued to cheaters across all Niantic games, 20% of them being permanent bans. Furthermore, 90% of players who received their first warning stopped cheating afterwards; a piece of data that Niantic defines "encouraging".

The company stated they have invested in new technology and are continuously tweaking and improving their existing detection tools in order to assure an accurate detection of cheaters and the minimum amount of false positives possible.

The Fast Track Program, introduced to try and provide a faster response to spoofing cases, has received more than 4000 Fast Track requests, of which ~70% were eligible for an expedited review.

Finally, to address concerns of remote Ingress Portals getting spoofed during Ops, Niantic is introducing new Compartmental Access Level measures which will be explained in more detail in a future Ingress Forum post.

Source: https://nianticlabs.com/blog/cheatingupdate-022321/

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