Pokemon Go is a huge security risk

Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by wlesieutre on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:12PM (#12073020)

They were an Alphabet company, but were spun off last year: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/14/niantic-l...

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Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by pdeuchler on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:17PM (#12073058)

They are still majority owned by Alphabet, they just spun it off so they could take VC and Nintendo money

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Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by RKoutnik on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:27PM (#12073131)

Right, so not only did they spend a significant amount of time steeping in Google itself, the big G then invested a significant amount of cash into the now-spun-out company. I'd say that qualifies as 'owned'.

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Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by falcolas on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:51PM (#12073341)

How does that make the permission creep OK? If they were part of Google, and already had access to the data, that's one thing. But they aren't, and they don't.

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Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by danudey on Monday July 11, 2016 @05:00PM (#12074575)

Even if Google Inbox were asking for full permissions I'd be extremely sketched out about that, but it wouldn't happen because Google developers are, by and large, on top of things.

A third-party company, even with significant investment and history with Alphabet, requesting full access to my Google account despite needing ZERO access (i.e. for what they need, requesting no permissions would suffice) is sketchy and inherently untrustworthy.

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Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by duaneb on Monday July 11, 2016 @07:31PM (#12075605)

Well, at least a stockholder. Which is nothing like complete ownership, especially considering Nintendo is the other elephant with equity.

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