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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers

From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:02:02 -0500
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To: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org> 
*sigh*

On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:54:50 GMT
In Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
At http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html

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 


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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations, Opera Software
Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2012 20:05:21 GMT

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