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April 3, 2012 03:53 am GMT
Back in early February, Path met with some serious backlash when Arun Thampi revealed that the social app was uploading address book data without explicit permission from its users. Path responded by taking Mike Arrington's advice, deleting the entire collection of user-uploaded contact information from its servers, and an update added an opt-in feature to ask users for permission before using its data.Today, Path is re-upping its commitment to showing users that it takes privacy seriously, announcing via blog post the release of Path 2.1.1 that the latest version enhances security by "hashing user data so that it is anonymized." According to the post, this includes last names, phone numbers, email address, Twitter handles, and Facebook IDs -- all of which will be anonymized.
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Two Months Removed From AddressGate, Path Starts Hashing, Anonymizing Data
Back in early February, Path met with some serious backlash when Arun Thampi revealed that the social app was uploading address book data without explicit permission from its users. Path responded by taking Mike Arrington's advice, deleting the entire collection of user-uploaded contact information from its servers, and an update added an opt-in feature to ask users for permission before using its data.Today, Path is re-upping its commitment to showing users that it takes privacy seriously, announcing via blog post the release of Path 2.1.1 that the latest version enhances security by "hashing user data so that it is anonymized." According to the post, this includes last names, phone numbers, email address, Twitter handles, and Facebook IDs -- all of which will be anonymized.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/msb9XfqjYr0/
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