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Concerns Arise Over Pokémon Go Granting Full Access to Players' Google Accounts [Update: Fix Incoming]
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And so when their systems get hacked....?
Guys, Nintendo and Google are in a joint venture on this app. Pokemon Go gets its data from Google Maps.
They WANT you to access your Google account for a reason...
They WANT you to access your Google account for a reason...
How happy would people be if I wrote an app and all it did was ask for permission to access all your google crap?
It wouldn't be approved in the App Store, and no one would download it because its obscene.
Perhaps the SOLE purpose of Pokemon is to datamine your Google crap and the game is the ruse....
It wouldn't be approved in the App Store, and no one would download it because its obscene.
Perhaps the SOLE purpose of Pokemon is to datamine your Google crap and the game is the ruse....
So, I deleted both Ingress and Pokemon Go from my Google Account permissions. Reinstalled the apps.
Ingress asked for Basic Account permissions. Pokemon Go, after asking for my Google account credentials, did not ask for any permissions or show any screen showing which permissions it got. Refreshing Google Account permissions page (on browser) showed that it had full account permissions.
Not cool.
Removing permissions seems to still lets me use the app on my iPhone, for now.
Ingress asked for Basic Account permissions. Pokemon Go, after asking for my Google account credentials, did not ask for any permissions or show any screen showing which permissions it got. Refreshing Google Account permissions page (on browser) showed that it had full account permissions.
Not cool.
Removing permissions seems to still lets me use the app on my iPhone, for now.
I abandoned Google a long time ago.
I signed up for one of the free, non-Google Pokemon accounts to use with this game, so no privacy issues for me.
Anyone who's still using Google - stopping isn't hard. There are better maps, better docs, better search, better email, better everything out there. Nothing Google does is particularly exceptional. There's no reason to have a Google account.
I signed up for one of the free, non-Google Pokemon accounts to use with this game, so no privacy issues for me.
Anyone who's still using Google - stopping isn't hard. There are better maps, better docs, better search, better email, better everything out there. Nothing Google does is particularly exceptional. There's no reason to have a Google account.
Pokemon. Apple catering to this crowd is why we can't have nice Mac Hardware.
Does anyone actually give stuff access to their real Google accounts? I've got one that I just use for crap and give everything that. There's absolutely no reason to give Pokémon or anything else my legit Google account if it's only for login purposes.
[doublepost=1468272731][/doublepost]I'll bet the developer got sick of permissions and said, "Forget it, just gonna grant all." Like when people chmod 777 everything.
[doublepost=1468272731][/doublepost]I'll bet the developer got sick of permissions and said, "Forget it, just gonna grant all." Like when people chmod 777 everything.
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It's more than just your Name, Address, etc... Full meaning access to other Google services.
behind a McDonalds dumpster at 2am! "I never thought I'd get robbed, I was only looking for Pokemon."
The thing is, I don't use any Google services on that account. If they can send fake emails from aksdfajj1234123@gmail.com, oh well.
I've done this a dozen times over the past few days. It will eventually ask you to authenticate again. Rinse and repeat.
I have a bookmark in safari straight to Google account settings.
That's how I've always set up accounts, both for myself and others. Several burner accounts for fluff, and two serious accounts, one for friends and one for business/work.
Oh and one of my friends says his brother told him never to sign up for a pr0n site with an email you care about because said email account will forever be flooded with pervy spam. His brother is a real wanker so I'd trust him on this one!
it's like saying , when apple gets hacked.....we are screwed big time. Appleid is as bad as access to the Google ecosystem..... Microsoft is jsut as bad also....all linked now.
And even better , a good chance someone uses the same email/password across all three .... as a whole we have become fools how much info we give to the big companies , cause they say it's safe....
Better to reduce the number of things you rely on being secure. I don't want to worry about Pokémon being breached and losing my Gmail as a result. That's totally unnecessary. Just use a fake Google account.
That's what I do, As I have control and there is a choice.
When it comes to associating a credit card to my appleid or google account , scenario changes.
Fake account or real account both can be hacked .
Ingress does the same thing??? (Pic from my account below):
For those that don't know, Niantic used to be a Google company. Ingress and Pokemon Go are from the same company - Niantic.
Ah, but that wouldn't make for a good headline. Macrumors and others need to ride the hype wave and publish as much Pokemon Go clickbait as possible.