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Pokemon GO may allow Niantic access to your Gmail (UPDATE)

by rawmeatcowboy
11 July 2016
GN Version 5.0

UPDATE - Niantic will fix this issue

If you've signed into your Pokemon GO app with a Google account, you might be granting Niantic some permissions you're not interested. Apparently the sign-up for the app will grant access to your Gmail account, and in theory, this could let Niantic read your emails, or even write ones from your account. Now this is not likely to happen, but now you know, which lets you go in and change permissions.

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