Path Charged With Additional Privacy Leak

Path, a mobile-only social network that bills itself as a more private alternative to Facebook, is facing new allegations that it breaches user privacy on the same day that it paid a fine for privacy-related violations discovered in February 2012.

Path, a mobile-only social network that bills itself as a more private alternative to Facebook, is facing new allegations that it breaches user privacy on the same day that it paid a fine for privacy-related violations discovered in February 2012.

The allegations come from Jeffrey Paul, a self-professed hacker and security researcher.

“Path’s iOS app … will use the embedded EXIF tag location information from photos in the iOS Camera Roll to geotag your posts, even when you’ve explicitly disabled Location Services for the Path application,” Paul wrote

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