The startup was ultimately acquired by Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL) in 2004 for an undisclosed sum and eventually became the basis for Google Earth, the online mapping service.Īfter Keyhole’s acquisition, Hanke stayed on at Google, serving as the company’s vice president of product management for the company’s Geo division, which included Google Earth, Google Maps, and other services. Google will soon reduce Pokémon GO’s permission to only the basic profile data that Pokémon GO needs, and users do not need to take any actions themselves.Long before Pokémon Go became a sensation, getting people of all ages to walk around town to find and train digital Pokemon characters overlaid in the real world thanks to augmented reality technology, an entrepreneur named John Hanke started a company named Keyhole.
Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokémon GO or Niantic. Once we became aware of this error, we began working on a client-side fix to request permission for only basic Google profile information, in line with the data that we actually access. However, Pokémon GO only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your User ID and email address) and no other Google account information is or has been accessed or collected. "We recently discovered that the Pokémon GO account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user’s Google account. Here's the Niantic's statement, emphasis ours: "Pokémon Go" only uses "basic Google profile information," the company says, and it is now working with Google on a fix so it only asks for the necessary permissions. Still, Niantic has now made clear that requesting "full account access" was a bug. It means Niantic can only read biographical information like email address and phone number."
Trail of Bits CEO Dan Guido told Gizmodo that "full account access" gives the app more limited access to your account than the term might suggest: " does not mean a third party can read or send or send email, access your files. It looks like it isn't as bad as that, however. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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