Blogger Discovers that Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to their Servers

When you download an application, you’re giving it a certain level of trust.  We’ve all been in the position where we download an application and within minutes we’v been asked multiple times to “log in with Facebook to invite all your friends.”  We quickly remove the application.  What if the application covertly uploaded everyone one of your address book contacts to its own servers?  Unfortunately, that’s the case with Path, a popular iPhone social app that we’ve covered here in the past.

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