Mashable:

Pokémon Go players won’t have to worry about sketchy app permissions for much longer.

The developer of the game has acknowledged that it “erroneously” requested full access permission to users’ Google accounts on iOS and says Google is working with them on a fix for the issue.

After these concerns were expressed yesterday, Google is taking this step – one they shouldn’t have had to because the app should never have been allowed to have so much access to a player’s Google information. Google seems to again and again make these kinds of “mistakes” – trying to grab as much data from and about us as they can and only dialing it back once they get called on it.