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Title: Path Reaches Settlement With FTC Over iOS Privacy Issue, Fined $800,000
Post by: HCK on February 01, 2013, 11:01:32 pm
Path Reaches Settlement With FTC Over iOS Privacy Issue, Fined $800,000
      


         
         
      
Last year, Path – the social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service received a lot of negative publicity when Singapore based developer and blogger discovered that Path’s slick iPhone app uploads your entire address book to its servers.
Apple was also criticised for giving developers far too much access to address book information without requiring a user prompt.  
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