"Reeve also admitted that he had never built an application that uses Google account permissions, and had never tested the claims he makes in the post," Gizmodo said. However, Reeve told Gizmodo that he wasn't "100 percent sure" that the things he wrote on his blog post were true. He claimed that the app can read all your emails, send emails as you, access all your Google drive documents (including deleting them), look at your search history and your maps navigation history, access any private photos you may store in Google Photos and a whole lot more. He now works with as a principal architect at Red Owl Analytics. Reeve said that Pokemon Go granted "full account access" to user's Google accounts when they log on with Google on iOS. The controversy over the security vulnerability started after Adam Reeve, former senior engineering manager at Tumblr, wrote a blog post claiming that the Pokemon Go app was a malware and a huge security risk. 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," it added. "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," Niantic said in a statement. "We recently discovered that the Pokémon Go account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user's Google account.
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