Zack ist das ganze Adressbuch im Web! Danke Path.

Posted: Februar 8th, 2012 ˑ Filled under: Social Media ˑ  Keine Kommentare

Letzte Woche berichtete ich noch darüber wie schön (optisch) das neue Netzwerk Path ist. Heute dann der Supergau. Es wurde bekannt das beim erstellen eines Path Accounts automatisch alle Daten des Adressbuches zum Server von Path übermittelt werden. Ich habe sofort eine Email an service@path.com geschickt und meinen Account samt aller Daten löschen lassen. Unglaublich so etwas.

Hier die Originaltexte der Quellen:

“Blogger Arun Thampi has discovered something that may or may not sit right about the free social media app Path while packet sniffing the app last night. Upon first installing the app and registering for an account, Path sends every single one of your contacts in your address book to their server via a .plist. The .plist includes full names, phone numbers, and e-mails.

Path makes the call “https://api.path.com/3/contacts/add” when you first create an account, and it uploads every single one of your contacts to its server. In most people’s mind this obviously makes them feel a little uncomfortable. Thampi details the technical aspects of this, and how you can recreate it yourself, in his blog post.

Path’s co-founder and CEO Dave Morin commented on the situation, saying iPhone users will soon be able to opt-out of the setting in an update that will be rolling out to the App Store shortly. But does that really change anything? He didn’t really explain why Path is doing this, and all of your address book is still on their servers. You can read Morin’s comment after the break:

We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it, so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client, pending App Store approval.”

Original Article by 9to5


UPDATE: 08. Februar 2012 / Heute erhielt ich diese Mail von Path

Nell

FEB 08, 2012  |  02:09PM PST
Hi Rouven,Thank you for getting in touch with us. We want you to know that you have been heard and as a result, as of today, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers.In addition, I have marked your account for permanent deletion. This means that your account can never be reactivated. I’ll be sure to follow up with you as soon as this is completed.On behalf of the team, I’d like to apologize for any privacy concerns that you may have had. Our intent in accessing this information was to make it easier for you to find your family and friends on Path. Our newest release of Path (2.0.6), prompts users with the option of allowing or denying Path access their contacts. We care deeply about our users and their sense of security and control over their personal information, and through our actions we aim to uphold this sentiment.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.All the best,
Nell

UPDATE: 09. Februar 2012 

Dazu gibt es jetzt auch einen schönen Kommentar von Norbert Tuschen!

 

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