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Sent to you by Bill Boulware via Google Reader: FYI: Path uploads your
iPhone's entire address book to their servers via 9to5Mac by Jake Smith
on 2/7/12
Blogger Arun Thampi has discovered something that may or may not sit
right about the free social media app Path while packet sniffing the
app last night. Upon first installing the app and registering for an
account, Path sends every single one of your contacts in your address
book to their server via a .plist. The .plist includes full names,
phone numbers, and e-mails.
Path makes the call "https://api.path.com/3/contacts/add" when you
first create an account, and it uploads every single one of your
contacts to its server. In most people's mind this obviously makes them
feel a little uncomfortable. Thampi details the technical aspects of
this, and how you can recreate it yourself, in his blog post.
Path's co-founder and CEO Dave Morin commented on the situation, saying
iPhone users will soon be able to opt-out of the setting in an update
that will be rolling out to the App Store shortly. But does that really
change anything? He didn't really explain why Path is doing this, and
all of your address book is still on their servers. You can read
Morin's comment after the break:
We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to
the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it,
so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a
few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our
iOS Client, pending App Store approval.
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