Once again we enter the problem of data management and privacy between applications. When we install applications from secure sources, we automatically trust them. However, it is common to see these strange movements, according to which, applications that should not require more than access to the camera or location (such as Pokemon Go), even request access to the contact list and the possibility of publishing on our networks social. Therefore, it is important to know to what extent we are allowing access to our personal information to applications that do not need it to improve our user experience. Attention, Pokemon Go gets full access to your Google accounts and this is infuriating many users.
After accepting the Pokemon Go installation conditions, and logging in using our Google account (the fastest and easiest method offered), we found out that when logging in with our Google account We are giving you full access to view and modify any of the information contained in our account. In fact, as Luis Padilla already warned in his daily Podcast, the only thing that is not given access is to modify and delete the Google account, for everything else it is completely free.
This is a double-edged sword, because we are not going to accuse the majority, but many take advantage of this data that we offer them in exchange for their free applications, in fact, this is your way of making the app profitable. A large number of companies linked to the economy and consumer society are delighted to get hold of this huge amount of data at a good price, with this, they prepare statistics and forecasts with which to subsequently control the market in any field. This is the main reason that users have not been very happy to offer their data.
What's behind the Pokemon Go business?
If we go further into the fabric about Pokemon Go to begin with, we will find out that the game has rights to the licenses of Nintendo, but it is not owned by Ninentdo. In fact, it seems that the only thing Nintendo has done in it is give permission and put its hand. The real person in charge of the elaboration and development of the application is Niantic. Now the second subject we should target is Google, Niantic is one of hundreds of branches or satellite companies that Alphabet, the root of Google, has.
On the other hand, the geolocation and map development system of Pokemon Go, as well as the implementation of augmented reality, are Google's harvest. In short, we find a Google box signed by Nintendo, which cannot contradict the fact that the application is really good and is revolutionizing the whole world. This application has made Nintendo grow 25% in the stock market in a few days, giving a breath of fresh air to a company that is in the doldrums and survives on its die-hard fans.
In short, it is scary to think that what looked like Pokemon is not even Nintendo, but this is what the world of technology and software development is about, it is not exactly an indication that we should be concerned about, but some data that is determined in not making conspicuously public.
Niantic has confirmed that Pokemon Go accesses almost all the data from our Google accounts, however, it has blamed it on a development error, and they have denied that this was their intention, so they have promised to solve this controversy in the next update. . Nevertheless, the damage has already been done, just a few minutes in our accounts are enough to access this information, and most people are downloading it from the moment they arrive in their country, in fact, let me venture that there will be no update until weeks after its complete worldwide publication.
