Pokemon Go is a huge security risk
It's worth noting that Niantic Labs (the folks who licensed Pokemon from Nintendo and made Pokemon Go) are actually <i>owned</i> by Google [0].  This is Google giving itself permission to do Google things.  Dollars to doughnuts they tried to use some internal-only API because things kept falling over at pokemon.com.  Is this a massive UX failure?  Certainly.  Is giving Google permission to access Google stuff a "Huge security risk"?  No more than putting your stuff in Google's hands in the first place.<p>Niantic are also the folks behind Ingress, if you've heard of that.<p>[0] Specifically, Alphabet owns a significant portion of Niantic, along with Nintendo: <a href="https://nianticlabs.com/blog/niantic-tpc-nintendo/" rel="nofollow">https://nianticlabs.com/blog/niantic-tpc-nintendo/</a> (they were previously wholly-owned by Google).