As a point of note, I believe all of the people you listed were part of the Wayfarer team, not Ingress, except one who's no longer with the company.
While @NianticBrian and @NianticCasey are regular responders here in the forums, plus a few of the engineers who I won't single out, NIA Ops is firewalled off from most of the company and probably only Brian of the people who post here would have any insight into their activities. However, that's simply from a management point of view, not AFAIK in any form of direct control.
NIA Ops will not directly engage because it would open up a fire-hose of questions and demands for "fix this", which is why they communicate through the official channels.
That said, NIA Ops entire job is finding and stopping cheating and damage to the game. They do not develop new features and likely have little to no interaction with the development team itself given their firewalling and difference in location. New features are developed by the engineers in Los Angeles, Seattle and the Bay Area (and probably other places) and NIA Ops runs across all three Niantic games searching for spoofing and third party hacks as their priority.
So, to your question, no, you're extremely unlikely to get a direct answer from NIA Ops regarding spoofing, but hopefully the recent wave of bans will garner at least an official statement at some point, Soon™
It is, but NIA Ops splitting their time between two different detection platforms. Ingress has more concern for spoofing than PoGo does, but I'd assume they're translating the detection methods across the two. The difference in Ingress is that people report it, and care.
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As a point of note, I believe all of the people you listed were part of the Wayfarer team, not Ingress, except one who's no longer with the company.
While @NianticBrian and @NianticCasey are regular responders here in the forums, plus a few of the engineers who I won't single out, NIA Ops is firewalled off from most of the company and probably only Brian of the people who post here would have any insight into their activities. However, that's simply from a management point of view, not AFAIK in any form of direct control.
NIA Ops will not directly engage because it would open up a fire-hose of questions and demands for "fix this", which is why they communicate through the official channels.
That said, NIA Ops entire job is finding and stopping cheating and damage to the game. They do not develop new features and likely have little to no interaction with the development team itself given their firewalling and difference in location. New features are developed by the engineers in Los Angeles, Seattle and the Bay Area (and probably other places) and NIA Ops runs across all three Niantic games searching for spoofing and third party hacks as their priority.
So, to your question, no, you're extremely unlikely to get a direct answer from NIA Ops regarding spoofing, but hopefully the recent wave of bans will garner at least an official statement at some point, Soon™
I presume Pokemon is on RWP? GPS spoofing seems rampant on it?
It is, but NIA Ops splitting their time between two different detection platforms. Ingress has more concern for spoofing than PoGo does, but I'd assume they're translating the detection methods across the two. The difference in Ingress is that people report it, and care.
It was, until they decided not to, for cost and development time reasons.