Path: We are sorry.

nikf:

Great response from Path over the Address Book stuff yesterday. Not only is there an app update with better disclosure, they’ve also mentioned in the post that all previously-uploaded address book data has been removed.

If you werent across this yesterday, it turns out that the Path app amongst other top social networking tools was transmitting your entire contact list to their server to allow for easier ‘find your friends’ functionality. What’s even more interesting is that this is actually standard practice across most of these types of apps.

However when it comes down to it; If you cant trust a social network with your address book, how are you going to trust them with your personal data?


Next witch please.

Source: thepersonalnetwork

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