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Pokemon Go pips Twitter, Facebook in terms of daily users

For the uninitiated, you download the app, which then encourages you to walk the streets of your town in search of wild Pokemon.

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To our relief Google has verified that Niantic or “Pokemon Go” has not accessed any other information of the players.

The newly-launched famous Augmented Reality (AR) game Pokemon Go has overtaken Twitter in terms of daily users and has seen people spending more time on its app than on Facebook.

Within 24 hours, Pokemon GO had already beaten Supercell’s heavily promoted Clash Royale to become the current top dog of games in 2016, as measured by daily active users.

The popularity of Pokemon GO, has created an opportunity for local shops attracting customers by marketing themselves as “Poke Stops”, where gamers can grab Pokemon balls and increase their level of power within the app.

He also asked for a list of service provides with whom Pokemon Go shares user information, why it shares information, how children’s information can be protected and how users’ Google accounts used to sign in can be protected.

It didn’t take long for scammers to join the Pokémon GO craze, with the Australian government cybercrime organisation Stay Smart Online warning a malicious version of the app targeting Android users has been released.

There are reports that Google will downgrade the permissions for “Pokemon Go”.

– Pokemon GO s privacy policy specifies the information collected “is considered to be a business asset” and will be disclosed or transferred to a third party.

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This is how the game works. This increased European availability follows the app’s release in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Germany, and the United Kingdom, with the latter two added just earlier this week.

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