> In my dream world Google would revoke Niantic's API access forever in order to make an example out of them. Maybe, eventually, if they can prove that they did

> In my dream world Google would revoke Niantic's API access forever in order to make an example out of them. Maybe, eventually, if they can prove that they didn't hoover up all the information they had access to they can be unbanned after a year. I'm really glad you're not making that decision then. Banning some company based on their use of public, legal APIs would be an absolutely toxic decision for Google's platform. It's Google's fault for allowing this kind of access with no notification (yes, the fault here might lie somewhere in OAuth, but there's plenty that Google could do to make this less serious). Don't blame people for leveraging options at their disposal.