“We thought we were doing this the right way. It turns out, we made a mistake.” Interview: Path CEO Explains Why His App Is Collecting Address Book Data - Wired - http://davemorin.tumblr.com/post...
RT @wired: Exclusive: Path's CEO explains why his app collects address book data, and how the company intends to make things right http://www.wired.com/gadgetl...
"Additionally, we're sorry about this. We hope that the proactive steps we've been taking over the last couple of weeks on our Android client show we care deeply. We're hoping to have iOS 2.0.6 into the App Store process by the end of the week."
- Dave Morin
"We actually will delete anything you would like deleted from our servers. We strongly believe that you should control your information. Feel free to email service@path.com and they'll take care of it for you."
- Dave Morin
"1. This is a good alternative solution which we'll look into. Thanks for the idea. 2. This is currently the industry best practice and the App Store guidelines do not specifically discuss contact information. However, as mentioned, we believe users need further transparency on how this works, so we've been proactively addressing this. 3. As I mentioned in the previous answer, we are rolling out this functionality for 2.0.6. In the meantime, if you would like your data deleted from our servers please contact our service team at service@path.com. We take this same policy for any of your data, if you'd like your account deleted, including all data, we're happy to do this as well. We fundamentally believe that you as a user should always have control over your information and data and you can always email our service team and we will remove anything you'd like from our servers."
- Dave Morin
"Arun, thanks for pointing this out. We actually think this is an important conversation and take this very seriously. We upload the address book to our servers in order to help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and effeciently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path. Nothing more. We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it, so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client, pending App Store approval. Dave Morin Co-Founder and CEO of Path"
- Dave Morin
I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I’ve taken the red pill, and I’ve seen Wonderland. - http://davemorin.tumblr.com/post...