Apple's Failure Lets Developers Steal Your Address Book [Apple]

2/9/2012

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Path faced a privacy flap when it was revealed that the company was uploading users' address book data to its servers without permission.

While it stopped doing that and deleted all the data it had stored, a larger issue remains. More »

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