Path
The startup that launched the privacy firestorm has updated its app to secure user data.
founder
Dave Morin,
Do you know what is an entreprenuer?
Path,
the hot San Francisco startup that ignited a firestorm of privacy
concerns when it was revealed that it was absorbing entire address books
from users' phones, today said it's come out with a fix.
In
a blog post, Path said that with the release of Path 2.1.1, "we are
enhancing our security by hashing user contact data so that it is
anonymized."
This,
the post goes on, will anonymize "last names, phone numbers, e-mail
addresses, Twitter handles, and Facebook IDs" -- all information that
Path collects to make its social network more effective.Early last
month, Path CEO and founder Dave Morin told a group of reporters at the
company's headquarters that the company was working quickly to encrypt
the data it was taking in.
The
Path controversy spread quickly after the issue was discovered by a
blogger in February. It soon caught the attention of lawmakers, and led
Apple to say that it would enforce its policy, which requires app makers
to notify users when its taking personal information.
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