Your gmail is safe with Pokemon

NEW DELHI: Laying to rest rumours that Pokemon Go leeches users’ Google profile, Niantic said the game only accesses basic Google profile information (user ID and email address).

“We recently discovered that the Pokémon Go account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user’s Google account... Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokémon Go or Niantic... Google will soon reduce Pokémon Go’s permission to only the basic profile data, and users do not need to take any action themselves,” it said.