>Ever wondered why the mosques had so much trouble with rare pokemon turning up in mosques leading to kids running around with phones pointing them everywhere. Yeah.
Did you make this up entirely, or are you recalling some random crap you read on raddle years ago? Because I'm pretty fucking sure this never happened.
First, when you play pokemon go, it isn't using your camera to record things, but it is definitely storing your location. Usually to get visual data, they rely on certain features, such as a sign outside of a church or a small free library or whatever, that someone takes a picture of and submits to their big database of places (this database was mostly built by Ingress players long before they had a Pokemon Go to play, and is used in literally all of their games, of which they have many, only Pokemon Go of which matters). Pokemon Go rewards you for scanning these areas at random (it will give you one scan quest a day normally, if you like), so if your "spy on mosques" bullshit was true, I'd:
(a) Expect to see every mosque with one or two pokestops or gyms
(b) Expect to get scan tasks for them more often
Instead, mosques hardly ever have any objectives near them (compared to churches, which almost always have one), and I've never seen rare pokemon near any of the three mosques (or any of the zillion churches) that I play pokemon go near. For the most part, rare world spawns aren't restricted to any specific spawnpoint or location, and usually don't matter too much if you've been playing awhile (all the serious pokemon come from events or raids, not just scattered through the city, and the very few exceptions just show up anywhere).
I think your statement is entirely bullshit, but I'm curious if it's based on claims from several years ago that went viral in some weird part of the internet, or if it's based on some "CIA is hunting brown people" narrative entirely by itself.