Pokemon Go is giving away your personal data

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If you spent your weekend wandering around capturing cartoon monsters on your phone, you're likely one of millions addicted to Pokémon Go, the latest mobile game sensation. But if you played the game on an iPhone and signed in with your Google account, you also just handed the keys to your entire Google account to Niantic, the developer behind the game. As pointed out by Adam Reeve, a principal architect at Red Owl analytics, nothing in the sign up process indicates that you're giving the app full access to your account.

Indeed, according to the Google help page, this means that the application will now be able to "see and modify nearly all information in your Google account." That means that Niantic -- and, more importantly, anyone who has access to Niantic's servers -- will be able to read and access all your email, your Google drive docs, your search history, your private Google Photos and a lot more.

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