Path Settles Privacy Charges With FTC

Agency also releases staff report recommending mobile privacy guidelines

Path, a social networking app, agreed to settle privacy charges with the Federal Trade Commission that it collected personal information from users' mobile address books without their knowledge or consent. The app, which lets users share personal journals with a network of friends ran afoul of children's privacy laws by collecting personal information from 3,000 children under 13 without parental consent.

To settle the charges, Path will pay $800,000. The company also agreed to establish a comprehensive privacy program that will be audited by the FTC every other year for the next 20 years.

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