February 07, 2012
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers

Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers is the story of the day.

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.

The reasoning behind it is obvious, those notes you might get saying something like “your friend blah blah has joined Path, would you like to friend them?” is only possible if they know who your friends are. Even so, not cool without disclosure. Course, I’m sure that there are a ton of other apps that do this exact same thing, just we don’t know about it.

The bigger question is do they do anything other than this…

Note that the CEO of path has replied with their reasons.





Posted by Arcterex at February 07, 2012 01:56 PM