(“The discovery sparked a wave of fear that playing the game might allow its developers, Niantic Labs, to read and send email, access, edit and delete documents in Google Drive and Google Photos, and access browser and maps histories. In fact, both Google and Niantic Labs, say that ‘full access’ counterintuitively means nothing of the sort, a claim backed up by independent security researchers.
The issue appears to stem from the fact that Niantic Labs uses an outdated version of Google’s shared sign-on service.”) 13 See, e.g., Ben Gilbert, “Pokémon Go Has Been Downloaded over 500 Million Times,” Business Insider, September 7, 2016, www.businessinsider.com/pokemon-go-500-million-downloads-2016-9.