Tag: Path.com

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Path updates iOS App, address book upload is now opt-in.

The headline: Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to Its Servers

Path‘s response: We are sorry

We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.

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In Path 2.0.6, released to the App Store today, you are prompted to opt in or out of sharing your phone’s contacts with our servers in order to find your friends and family on Path. If you accept and later decide you would like to revoke this access, please send an email to service@path.com and we will promptly see to it that your contact information is removed.

Path iOS App version 2.0.6 now warns users before uploading the content of Address Book.

That’s a proper response from Path.

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Goodbye Path, for now.

The headline: Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to Its Servers

The reactions: Delete Path from iPhone (iOS device)

Email service@path.com and request to delete your Address Book data from Path servers.

Hi (First Name of Path User),

Thanks for getting in touch with us! I have erased your contacts and their information from our servers.

On behalf of the team, I’d like to apologize for any privacy concerns that you may have had. Our current release of Path for Android requests permission to access your address book. In the next iOS release, we will have this same permission request added.

Until the update is released for iOS, selecting “Add Friends” will display the names of contacts that you have stored on your phone. But now that you’ve opted out of contact uploading, we will never re-store this data on our servers.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you. I’m more than happy to address any further questions or concerns that you may have.

Best,
(First Name of Path Service Personnel)

That’s simple enough.