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Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate, Calls For “Application Privacy Summit [Guest Post]
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The following is a guest post from Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow, following yesterday and today’s revelations that select apps were uploading user’s entire address books to their database. We blew it, we’re sorry, and we’re going to make it right. It’s Hipster’s goal to provide a fun and beautiful service...
Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate, Calls For “Application Privacy Summit [Guest Post]
Path’s newest update fixes its privacy problem, and includes an apology from the CEO
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In the wake of yesterday’s privacy concerns over Path uploading the address books of users without their consent, the company’s CEO Dave Morin has today come back with an apologetic blog post and explanation: “Through the feedback we’ve received from all of you, we now understand that the way we...
Path's privacy problem poses questions for all social apps
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It's not wrong to store someone's phone contacts on a server. It's wrong to do it without telling them.Social photography startup Path has apologised to its users for uploading and storing their phone contacts on its servers, but the controversy looks set to spread far beyond that one company, as...
Daily Report: Social App Makes Off With Address Books
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Path, which makes a social networking app of the same name that has been getting some traction lately, is facing criticism over the way it surreptitiously uploads a copy of users' address book information to its servers....
Path CEO apologies for address book uploading, deletes all user data, and updates app with privacy controls
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Path has moved quickly to try and quell the backlash stemming from the social networking app's practice of uploading users' address books to the company's servers. CEO Dave Morin just posted a lengthy apology on Path's blog, saying "we are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our...
Path CEO apologies for address book uploading, deletes all user data, and updates app with privacy controls
Mobile Social Network Caught Uploading Users' Address Books
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Path, the smartphone-based social network, said the practice helps users find and connect to their friends and family quickly and efficiently....
Path's Loudest Investor Just Publicly Told It To Delete Its User Data
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Mike Arrington, an investor in Path, just called out the company and Dave Morin after it was revealed that Path is storing address book data. He told Morin and his company that it should just delete all the stored address books on its servers on his personal blog, Uncrunched....
Move over Knight Rider: Nuance debuts a Siri for cars
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Nuance Communications wants you to have a conversation with your car via the cloud. The speech recognition company already powers many of the voice technologies embedded into today’s automobiles, but on Tuesday it unveiled Dragon Drive, which moves beyond simple voice commands into the realm of natural language understanding....
Path Apologizes For Privacy Mistake. Do You Accept?
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After an enterprising hacker discovered a privacy problem in beloved new social app Path yesterday, its creators have issued an update and an apology. "We commit to you that we will continue to be transparent and always serve you our users, first," CEO Dave Morin writes. Path was uploading iPhone...
Path vows contact data 'hashing' in next update, chases privacy certification
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Path is still trying to pave over those privacy cracks, promising that its next update will "hash" the contact data it previously used to suck up without prior warning. Last month, the app was caught with its digital fingers inside users' address books and while the subsequent (and understandly...
“We’re So So Sorry”: An Apology Form Letter For Startups
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Sometimes it really does seem like we live in the Wild West of the digital age, the rules of the Internet get made up as we go along. Due to the newness, it seems like there’s a scandal per week in tech startup land, and, because of social media, the...
Self-Hosted File Sync Solution ownCloud Goes Commercial
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People love Dropbox and similar services, but companies — especially large enterprises in regulated industries — have an understandable aversion to file sync services: they allow company data on servers “out there” in the cloud, no longer under company control. ownCloud, essentially an open source, self-hosted Dropbox, has a unique...
Chill Out, Eh. Canada Commends Facebook’s Privacy Progress
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You can put down your pitchforks and torches. An investigation by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found three recent complaints against Facebook were either unfounded, resolved, or both. Considering most government privacy audits end with demands for specific changes, this looks like a win for the folks at 1 Hacker Way....
Brewster
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Twenty years into the personal technology revolution and we are still using address books that work pretty much like physical address books. It makes no sense. The mobile address book should be hyperconnected to our digital life, informed by it, and responsive to it. I remember back in early 2011,...
Path-ological: In 2010, founder Dave Morin said Path never stored user data
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Dave Morin circa 2010It’s the privacy snafu that will not die. A day after a developer discovered that Path was storing users entire address books on its servers, the startup seemed to have defused the incident by apologizing and deleting all the personal data it had stored. But now Gawker’s...
Apps Uploading Address Books Is A Privacy Side-Show Compared To DPI
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While the hand-wringing over the future of journalism, blogging, the nature of conflicts of interest, yada yada, has been deeply interesting (alongside the personal attacks – we all like a good public fight don’t we?), it’s worth recalling that the furore was kicked off by a fairly pertinent point. To...
Online Privacy: Who Cares?
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Every few months, the Internet erupts in outrage about some new threat to our privacy. Remember when Mark Zuckerberg made some offhand remarks about the age of privacy being over? Or when Facebook introduced Beacon, which took info about your shopping habits and shared it with advertisers? Or how...
What iOS apps are grabbing your data, why they do it and what should be done
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Early last week the personal diary app Path became the fulcrum of a massive discussion about how cavalier mobile apps are getting with harvesting your, presumably, personal information. Path was found by a developer to send the entire contents of its users Address Books, where, it was uncovered, it was...
With iOS 6, Apple and Facebook unite for non-stop social networking
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In the dawn of a rekindled relationship status, Apple has deeply integrated Facebook into its latest operating system, iOS 6, to be released to consumers later this year. “We have been working very closely with Facebook to create the best Facebook integration ever in a mobile device,” Apple’s senior...
Path Apologizes for and Removes Automatic User Address Book Uploads
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Personal social network Path got called out yesterday for automatically uploading users’ address books to its servers. Now the company has formally apologized and introduced a fix. CEO Dave Morin wrote in a blog post, “We now understand that the way we had designed our ‘Add Friends’ feature was wrong....
SmartSync Releases New Version Of The App That Turns You Into A God
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SmartSync, which has been doing good business on iPhone app store [itunes link], has released an updated version which a big improvement on the original app, which has become popular because it makes you sound like some sort of omnipresent god. No, I got that wrong. Let’s try that again....
Your address book is mine: Many iPhone apps take your data
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Path got caught red-handed uploading users’ address books to its servers and had to apologize. But the relatively obscure journaling app is not alone. In fact, Path was crucified for a practice that has become an unspoken industry standard. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Foodspotting, Yelp, and Gowalla are among a...
Dave Morin, Post-Pathgate: Dealing With Unprecedented Scale, Hopeful About The Future
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In case you live under a rock (I hate that played out phrase, someone please come up with something better) Path founder Dave Morin has been through a hellish past two weeks — About a week before Valentine’s Day, his app came under major fire for uploading user iOS Address Books....
ContactMonkey makes sharing your contact information stupendously easy, raises $800,000
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If you agree with me that sharing and saving contact details to digital address books is still a tedious pain even in this day and age, you’ll be happy to meet my new buddy ContactMonkey, which offers a ridiculously simple and effective way of frictionless, cross-platform sharing of contact information...
The horror: Android allows apps access to your pictures
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It seems that you can’t turn around lately without hearing about another alarming invasion of your privacy on a mobile device. Copied address books, stolen SMS messages, and location tracking are apparently par for the course. The latest uproar is over Google’s Android operating system and the way it protects,...
Twitter under fire post mobile privacy row
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Twitter has acknowledged that it has copied the content of peoples' entire address books from their mobile phones and stored the information on its servers, without many of its users realising....
@facebook.com e-mail plague chokes phone address books
arstechnica.com
The splash damage from Facebook's forced addition of @facebook.com e-mail addresses to users' profiles has carried over to phone contacts. Users who have given Facebook permission to sync information from the site to their phone's contacts have noticed that since the great e-mail address donation, legitimate e-mail address entries have...
There Are Now 200,000 People In Everyme Circles
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On Tuesday, Everyme launched its iPhone app for people to share with limited circles of friends, family members, and coworkers. Today, CEO Oliver Cameron says the response has been “crazy.” Specifically, he says that 24,000 people have created Everyme accounts in the first 48 hours. Because of the way Everyme...
iPhone Address Book Fiasco Should Be Apple's Cue to Build Its Own Social Network
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Apple is good at many things, but so far, it has not excelled at "social" Web services. For example, Ping, the music-focused service it launched in 2010, is seen as one of its rare failures. But now Apple has a real chance to do something "social" properly, by turning its...
To Lock Down Mobile Apps, Cenzic Launches New App Testing Tools
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Software and SaaS security company Cenzic is today launching a new security product for mobile application developers which will allow for the testing of mobile apps on any platform – iOS, Android, J2ME, and more. The product will be the first that can test products without requiring developers to submit...
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