(Dagbladet): Pokémon is back, and it in terms of mobile game “Pokemon Go.” The game is currently only launched in the US, Australia and New Zealand, but Norwegian users can also easily download it anyway.
the game has become so popular in the United States that it has already been downloaded over five percent of all Android phones there, just a few days after laser no 6 July.
it is also expected that the game launches in Norway continuously. Should you, however, catch the wave, it might be worth reading the Terms of Use first.
If you log in with, for example Google Account, you give the developer access to dangerous amount of data. Among other things, they get both read and write access to your mail, they can read Google documents and they can access the IP address, according to BuzzFeed.
Data Inspectorate, the legal adviser Tobias judinet, is very critical.
– Problematic
judinet tells Dagbladet that he himself have read the terms and that there’s something about them that jarring.
– It is problematic. To use the service, you can choose to log in with either a Google, Facebook or Pokémon account. Do you Thurs the 1st risk giving developers a lot of information from your account, tells judinet.
He believes that developer Niantic may collect directly identifiable information from accounts used during registration. Especially problematic is if you provide your Google account and use the iPhone, where it automatically provides service access to your entire account, including e-mail and documents.
– Terms are not clear enough, and the company is a popular hackermål. If the servers should be hacked, you risk that one’s Google and Facebook information going astray, although Google and Facebook’s servers are safe. There is no reason why the game should have access to your personal information, says Counsel.
judinet points out that he has no reason to say that this can be dangerous, but it is not clear illuminated how the company will use the information they have gathered. He says the company is located in the US and other laws for the treatment of information applies there.
– they say they’ll use it to improve their own services, whatever that means. It does not necessarily anonymous. As a user has no control over this, he said.
Even if you delete “Pokemon Go” from your phone, the information you have given the company still be there, which is also one of the aspects judinet is critical to .
the company Niantic has issued a press release in which they admit that the application requires access to too much information, but that they should rectify this in a new update.
The game has also been responsible for numerous injuries. Among other things, reports of ankle injuries, accidents in revolving doors and collisions with trees. The game should also have led to dangerous situations, such as when characters appear on the hood of cars or intersections. In the Australian Northern Territory police have asked people to stay out of the station, after several have entered while they play the game. According to Slate, the game has also been used by robbers to lure to his victims. police Oslo, the police superintendent Dag Harald Drevsjø by preventive section on Manglerud police, tells Dagbladet that people must take care. – we will not warn about this until we have seen what that entails. I can however say that it is important to follow with the traffic situation. Do not be too engrossed in your phone. It can create risks for both yourself and others, he informs. It is not clear when the game launches in the App Store and Google Play in Norway. In an interview with Business Insider tells the makers that they must wait with the launch in other countries because the system constantly overloaded. Can article be better? Have you found an error we should know about? Report here 
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It is not only the Terms of the game these days get attention.
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