The mobile app is used by players to walk around and collect the popular characters.
To play the Pokemon Go, you oughta get in with an account.
He just inferred from Googles descriptions, which make no mention of such activities.
Having said this, Niantic has nonetheless acknowledged that Pokemon Go requests more permissions than it actually needs.
It is an innocent technical error and no other Google account information has been collected, Niantic says.
No Pokemon were harmed as well.
Specifically, only the Google user ID and e-mail address, basically only the users Google profile was accessed.
Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokemon Go or Niantic.
source: www.techworm.net