Pokemon Go is becoming such a huge trend nowadays, as most of my friends are already going crazy about it. When the majority of us use our Google account to sign into the app, we didn’t expect these risks Pokemon Go is causing…
Pokemon Go: to access your Google account’s passwords
The fatest and easiest way many of us use to sign in to Pokemon Go is via our Google account. And when you do that, you unintentionally give the app a certain level of access to your account, which includes reading emails, location history and pretty much everything else. Although the access has only been applied to iOS users up to now, the risk for Android users is still hanging.
Reading to this point, you may wonder, why does Pokemon need these information, and why are we not asked permission? This was only discovered when RedOwl’s Adam Reeve took a look as the app to see how fast it is when he logged in with Google. Please keep in mind that we are not talking about the obvious access Pokemon Go already asked user’s permission to access, like your fine location, camera and motion sensors, the reach to microSD card etc. All of these are totally understandable as they relate directly the process of playing the game.
However, the question being asked is: Why does such a virtual reality game have full access to the confidential information (ID, password) of your Google account, those you may not even share to your best friends? And above all, why don’t Google give users a warning when this happen, so that we know how far the access can go, and maybe think twice about the decision? Till now, only a number of iOS users have had the problem. But that doesn’t mean we should be lenient about our own security, especially when we are living in a world where personal privacy is always at high risk.
Pokemon Go: protect yourself from security leaks
If you are a current Pokemon Go player, go can check whether your account is giving full access in the link here. We, and the whole internet are looking for answer from Google, to clarify things and protect our privacy. And it does need to concern and support from all of the users out there to contribute on the process. Stay tuned, and share with us any piece of information you have to gather.