Pokémon Go: Coding error gave company access to your emails

The makers of Pokemon Go were forced to make emergency fixes to the game because the app gave the company an unprecedented level of access into players' personal lives Pokemon Go app gets "full access" to your Google account which is something most apps don't dare demand Niantic has confirmed in a statement that the Pokémon Go app requests more permissions than it needs but that it has not accessed any user information and it has started working on a fix to reduce the user permission needed to play the game