the app Path quietly uploaded users’ iPhone address books without permission (via Don’t Forgive Path, the Creepy iPhone Company that Misled Us Once Already)
“We are sorry,” Path’s young andĀ moneyedfounder Dave Morin told hisĀ 2 million+ usersin a carefully hedged blog post. “We commit to you that we will continue to be transparent… As a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers,”
Right, except Morin already said that content wasn’t supposed to be on its servers in the first place.