US Senator Al Franken concerned about Pokemon privacy

First of all, let’s be clear that you’re vastly overestimating the level of depth the media would ever give to covering, “Franken Asks Questions We Know Answers to!” They can’t hold Trump down to whether he wants to build a wall at twenty feet or fifty.

Second of all, PokemonGo does very clearly do the things he’s asking about. Sure, we can guess the answers to some of the items which are innocuous: It controls sleeping to keep the screen from going dark while you play and it controls vibration to enhance the game through haptic feedback. A lot of what PokemonGo demands that Franken asks about is boilerplate for a lot of apps, so I’m not seeing the “rumor” here.

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