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When the Pokémon Go obsession reached full saturation this week, privacy concern whispers became full-blown hysterical shrieks when a researcher's blog post accused the game's maker of taking over its users' Google accounts. As it turned out, the app's iPhone permissions were just poorly implemented, and fixed immediately.
Unfortunately that didn't stop the privacy and security hysteria machine. All week long, headlines made a mountain out of the molehill, scaring some people into uninstalling the app altogether.
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