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US Senator troubled over Pokemon Go’s privacy issues

Pokemon Go has become a global phenomenon and the data now has started to reveal some exciting insights into the game usage patterns as well.

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According to The Verge, it will roll out in other European countries soon after its German launch, and the latest reports say that this smartphone game has officially arrived in Spain, Italy, and Portugal too.

Based on the popular Japanese franchise, Pokemon Go is available so far only in Australia, the United States and New Zealand.

In order to play the game, users must allow the app to access other applications, such as maps and the camera.

Already downloaded the USA version of the app?

SimilarWeb said Pokemon Go manage to surpass Twitter in terms of daily active users on Monday and now sees 5.92 per cent of the US Android population engaging with the app on a daily basis. Pokemon Go has been grabbing headlines as well as money from your pocket. But the game has not been free of problems, and there are bound to be plenty of updates in its future.

Senator Al Franken of Minnesota sent a letter to Niantic Chief Executive John Hanke asking what user data Pokemon GO collects, how the data is used and with what third party service providers that data may be shared.

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Obviously, the app is available for download right now via the Google Play Store for Android and Apple’s App Store for the iPhone.

He said: “I’m looking forward to losing some weight (by walking around catching Pokemons) and bumping into strangers, knowing they are there for the same reason I am – to catch ’em all!”. The publisher of the game, Niantic, is on cloud nine and the game is raking in millions of dollars just within a few days of its release.

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“When it works, Pokemon Go feels like a natural evolution for the series, very much a product of the times without making the mainline series obsolete”.

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