An Alberta woman has launched a class-action lawsuit against the company behind the popular video game Pokemon Go.
Barbra-Lyn Schaeffer, who lives in the hamlet of Torrington, 160 kilometres northeast of Calgary, says she and her husband have suffered an invasion of privacy by Pokemon players using the couple’s home as a Pokemon gym.
She says she has no idea why but wants it to stop.
“People looking through the windows, looking through the doors, trying to come over the fence,” she says.
“On Saturday someone threw a drone into our yard to play the game.”
Schaeffer, who raises dogs, says she has asked Niantic, the creator of the game, to remove her residence as a so-called Pokestop but received only an automatic reply from the company.
Pokemon Go, played on a mobile app for iOS and Android phones, features creatures that players “catch” in the wild and train to battle in gyms that are located at landmarks.
The lawsuit has been filed in Calgary and has not been certified by the courts.
With CBC and CP files.
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