Path update includes privacy fix and apology

Recently, it was uncovered that the social networking app Path had a pretty big privacy problem, when developer Arun Thampi found that the app uploaded the user's entire contacts list without consent. Path's CEO Dave Morin said that the company knew about the problem and that the company had a fix in the works.
Morin said that an updated version of Path had been pushed to the Android Market "a couple weeks ago" which changed the defaults to require users to opt-in and allow their contact lists to be shared with Path, and that the same update had also been submitted to Apple's App Store and was pending approval. Today, that approval has been granted and the update for the iOS version of Path... »read more

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