"We recently discovered that the Pokémon Go account creation process on
iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user's Google
account. However, Pokémon Go only accesses basic Google profile
information (specifically, your user ID and e-mail address) and no other
Google account information is or has been accessed or collected. Once we
became aware of this error, we began working on a client-side fix to
request permission for only basic Google account information, in line
with the data we actually access. Google has verified that no other
information has been received or accessed by Pokémon Go or Niantic.
Google will soon reduce Pokémon Go's permission to only the basic
profile data that Pokémon Go needs, and users do not need to take any
actions themselves."
-Niantic
Categories: Paranoia, Pokemon Go, Security
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