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Path caught storing users’ unencrypted data

Posted on February 7, 2012July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Heather Taylor writes:

Today developer Arun Thampi discovered his entire address book including full names, emails and phone numbers was being collected by the new social app, Path.

In trying to make things easy for users, Path uploads your address book to their servers so you can easily connect to your friends and family on its network.

The problem is Path doesn’t tell you its going to do it.

Read more on eConsultancy.

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