[chromaton]

On Android, Pokemon Go requests permission to access your contacts. I declined this access, and the app still seems to work (modulo the crashes & bugs that others have reported).

Accessing the camera and location I can understand, but I don't want to give Pokemon Go access to my contacts.

[disgruntledphd2]

I assume that its for a yet to be implemented find friends feature, but I was also concerned at that permission request.

[po1nter]

I works even if you disable access to the camera (on android that is) but you obviously won't be able to use the AR view.

[joshschreuder]

The contacts request doesn't happen on iOS (yet)