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It’s not wrong to store someone’s phone contacts on a server. It’s wrong to do it without telling them.
Social photography startup Path has apologised to its users for uploading and storing their phone contacts on its servers, but the controversy looks set to spread far beyond that one company, as Silicon Valley wakes up to the fact that privacy is an issue that can derail even the slickest social apps.
The backlash against Path started with a blog post by Arun Thampi, who discovered that (...)