Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to Its
Servers

post from Daring Fireball on 08 February 2012 01:04:04 AM. © Daring Fireball

Arunan Thampi, after examining the network traffic between Path’s iPhone app and their servers:

Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. Now I don?t remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its contents to its servers, so I created a completely new ?Path? and repeated the experiment and I got the same result — my address book was in Path?s hands.

Path’s reaction, paraphrased: Hey, no big deal. We’re only using the data to help you find your friends.

Everyone else in the world’s reaction: Dude, that’s fucked up.

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