{"id":101,"date":"2016-10-04T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bizbrolly.com\/Blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2025-01-22T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:28:17","slug":"privacy-and-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizbrolly.com\/blog\/privacy-and-pokemon-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy and Pok\u00e9mon Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gotta catch \u2018em all!<\/strong>nn\u00a0nnAll of our childhood dreams came to life when Niantic Labs, brought to life, Pok\u00e9mon Go, the augmented reality game took over our lives. It\u2019s release in August this year caused ripples in the world of gaming. The gaming sensation surpassed Facebook, Twitter, and Netflix\u2019s daily popularity on Android phones. Over on Apple devices, the game was downloaded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/07\/22\/apple-says-pokemon-go-is-the-most-downloaded-app-in-its-first-week-ever\/\">more times<\/a>\u00a0in its first week than any app that came before it\u00a0nnWhile India and the East saw a late release, the West took the early winds of this sensational game. The suddenly vast scale of Pok\u00e9mon Go use is matched by the game\u2019s aggressive use of personal information. Unlike, say, Twitter, Facebook, or Netflix, the app requires uninterrupted use of your location and camera\u00a0nnLike most apps like Foursquare, Tinder that work with the GPS, Pok\u00e9mon Go too collected a lot of information on your movement. \u00a0And, like many developers who build those apps, Niantic keeps that information. According to the\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Go privacy policy, Niantic may collect \u2014 among other things \u2014 your email address, IP address, the web page you were using before logging into Pok\u00e9mon Go, your username, and your location. And if you use your Google account for sign-in and use an iOS device, unless you specifically revoke it, Niantic has access to your entire Google account\u2014 your email, the drive among other things. It also means that if the Niantic servers are hacked, whoever hacked the servers would potentially have access to your entire Google account\u00a0nnGiven this amount of privacy breach, you\u2019d wonder what do to do next in the risk management area, here is a breakdown\u2014nn\u00a0nn<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Step 1: Identify and assess the risks<\/strong><\/span>nIn this case, several researchers reported the issue with the app and it was widely published in its early days when the app had just started picking up in popularity\u00a0nn<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Step 2: Deal with treating the risks<\/strong><\/span>nYou can do so by avoiding the risk, reducing the risk, sharing the risk, or accepting the risk. In this case, you had people removing the app immediately (avoiding the risk), switching to a \u201cthrowaway\u201d email account (reducing the risk), or accepting the risk (doing nothing)\u00a0n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>So, where does the Pok\u00e9mon Go incident leave us with Cybersecurity one may think? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>n\u00a0nnThis Pok\u00e9mon Go incident served as a litmus test of where the average person\u2014 more likely the younger generation stands in terms of their security and privacy awareness. Most people are able to grasp subconsciously the basic concepts of threats, impact, and likelihood that make up risks\u2014 however remain unaware at large of how to safeguard themselves\u00a0nnSuch incidences are greater opportunities for technology companies to gain a conscientious perspective towards privacy and work towards providing a safer technological environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta catch \u2018em all!nn\u00a0nnAll of our childhood dreams came to life when Niantic Labs, brought to life, Pok\u00e9mon Go, the augmented reality game took over our lives. It\u2019s release in August this year caused ripples in the world of gaming. The gaming sensation surpassed Facebook, Twitter, and Netflix\u2019s daily popularity on Android phones. 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