Pokemon Go on iOS gets full access to your Google account
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/07/pokemon-go-on-ios-gets-full-access-to-your-google-account/
A word of warning if you're playing Pokmon Go on iOS: signing
into the app through Google currently gives the game full
access to your Google account (hat tip to Adam Reeve for
discovering the issue). External apps that you sign into with
Google often ask for a small subset of permissions based on
what they need to do--view your contacts, view and send
e-mail, view and delete Google Drive documents, and so on.
But Niantic's Pokmon Go iOS app doesn't ask, and with full
account access, it can theoretically do all of those things
and more. You can check on and revoke permissions for Pokmon
Go and any other external app on this page.
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I understand that App permission regimes remain a wasteland even after
the diligent work to improve them, but this is unacceptable for a
damned game.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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