Pokemon Go maker: Coding error gave company access to your emails

“Pokémon Go” is more popular than Tinder?!

A Democratic U.S. senator on Tuesday asked the software developer behind Nintendo Co Ltd’s Pokemon GO to clarify the mobile game’s data privacy protections, amid concerns the augmented reality hit was unnecessarily collecting vast swaths of sensitive user data.

He added that he has played the game and it’s a “great way to take a walk with my son”.

Shares in computer games giant Nintendo have surged for the second day straight after investors sweetened to its Pokemon GO smartphone app. Launches for other countries including Japan – one of the world’s biggest gaming markets – are due soon.

Pokemon Go has everyone trying to “catch ’em all”.

Franken cites both “recent reports” and the Pokemon GO privacy policy, saying they both “suggest that Niantic can collect a broad swath of personal information from its players …” While Variety, another entertainment website, pointed out that this was just the latest in a series of scams created to prey on Pokemon Go players, Deadline fell for the email hook, line, and sinker.

Niantic, a company that partners with Nintendo, said it discovered the app requested full access to information stored in users’ Google accounts, information the company said it did not need.

“Now if we were talking about its next generation console becoming the core platform for gamers, then that would be something to get excited about – but at the moment, this alone is not enough”, said Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager at Chibagin Asset Management.