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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Path seems to have bounced back from last month’s privacy kerfuffle quite handily. The app maker announced today that its API will be integrated into Nike’s running apps and accessories, allowing your friends to cheer you on virtually.
We’ve been talking a lot about Path lately, thanks to a privacy issue that caused Congress to nastrygram Apple, and Apple to change policy. And just like Path rectified its privacy problem, it’s got another impending fix I’m happy about.
Someone found out that Path — and likely other apps too — was stealing your iPhone and iPad’s address book information without telling you about it. This happened because of Path’s greediness, but also because Apple is not protecting your privacy as it should.
We’ve made a big deal about Apple allowing app developers to download and store the address books of iPhone users. As have many others. And while it’s easy to shrug and assume that it won’t affect you in any tangible way, you shouldn’t.
Path messed up. The app was collecting address book data without user permission and it pissed off a lot of people. Now even Congress is getting involved, wondering what the hell happened. Congress has sent a letter to Apple asking questions and demanding answers.
I was recently complaining to a teller at my bank that the another bank down the street had given my three-year-old daughter a stuffed horse for nothing more than walking past the front door. I jokingly asked her what gifts my own bank would be willing to offer to compete for the affections of my daughter. Then I said, “Oh, you probably don’t like it when I mention the competition when I’m in here, eh?”
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.
While searching for a way to create an OS X app for Path’s social network, hacker Arun Thampi stumbled on to something that could raise privacy issues with the app.
I’ve written before about how much I like Path, largely because it’s so intimate. And I still do like it. But its latest update bums me out.
