Path updates iOS App, address book upload is now opt-in. February 8, 2012
Posted by very in : Announcement, Apple, iOS, iPhone, iPod, News, Security, Tech , add a commentThe headline: Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to Its Servers
Path‘s response: We are sorry
We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.
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In Path 2.0.6, released to the App Store today, you are prompted to opt in or out of sharing your phone’s contacts with our servers in order to find your friends and family on Path. If you accept and later decide you would like to revoke this access, please send an email to service@path.com and we will promptly see to it that your contact information is removed.
Path iOS App version 2.0.6 now warns users before uploading the content of Address Book.
That’s a proper response from Path.
Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.
Goodbye Path, for now. February 7, 2012
Posted by very in : Announcement, iOS, iPhone, iPod, News, Security, Tech , add a commentThe headline: Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to Its Servers
The reactions: Delete Path from iPhone (iOS device)
Email service@path.com and request to delete your Address Book data from Path servers.
Hi (First Name of Path User),
Thanks for getting in touch with us! I have erased your contacts and their information from our servers.
On behalf of the team, I’d like to apologize for any privacy concerns that you may have had. Our current release of Path for Android requests permission to access your address book. In the next iOS release, we will have this same permission request added.
Until the update is released for iOS, selecting “Add Friends” will display the names of contacts that you have stored on your phone. But now that you’ve opted out of contact uploading, we will never re-store this data on our servers.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you. I’m more than happy to address any further questions or concerns that you may have.
Best,
(First Name of Path Service Personnel)
That’s simple enough.
Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.
All Private Google Profiles to be deleted for Google+ sake. July 5, 2011
Posted by very in : Announcement, Media, News, Resources, Tech , add a commentUPDATE:
Clarifications from Google:
If you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public, you can delete your profile. Or, you can simply do nothing. All private profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011.
That’s more like it. I’ve deleted my personal Google Profile anyway.
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Search Engine Land reported that Google+ Profiles Will Be Public: Google To Terminate All Private Profiles After July 31st.
Good move, Google. I just remembered to delete my Google Profile, the personal one. I do have a different account that has no personal information other than my professional experience.
Let’s take a look at part of my to-do-list:
- Delete Facebook Profile – done
- Delete personal Google Profile – done
- Not joining Google+ – done
What’s next Google? What about fending off Microsoft from threatening manufacturers over Android and Chrome?
Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.
Tuesday Blues: Google I/O 2011, Microsoft Buys Skype, and Senate Hearing On Mobile Privacy. May 10, 2011
Posted by very in : Announcement, Apple, Applications, Apps, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Media, Microsoft, News, Resources, Security, Tech , add a commentIt’s Tuesday and there are a lot of news coming.
Microsoft confirms Skype acquisition.
Some said that Microsoft were “tricked” into overpaying the acquisition. Om Malik brings up a few good points.
Google I/O 2011
Exciting event for Google Developers and Fans.
(Ed. – The message is: “People in the glasshouse shouldn’t throw the rocks.”)
Coverage by This is ny next.
Senate Hearing on Mobile Privacy
Apple and Google on hot seats regarding location data and privacy.
A Senior VP and a lobbyist testified. Guess which companies they are representing, respectively.
Coverage by This is my next.
Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.
Apple Answers Questions Regarding iPhone Location Data. April 27, 2011
Posted by very in : Announcement, Apple, Applications, Apps, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Media, News, Resources, Security, Tech, Troubleshooting , add a commentApple answers questions regarding iPhone Location Data through its Press Release page. To summarize Apple’s answers:
- Apple is not tracking anyone.
- The iPhone is not logging user’s location.
- It is the database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around user’s current location. Some are located far away from user’s actual locations.
- This database is used to triangulate the iPhone location when Locations Services is running.
- The current database is not encrypted, but protected in a different way. Next software update will encrypt the file.
- Geo-tagged Wi-Fi hotspot and cell-tower data are sent to Apple in an anonymous and encrypted form.
“Apple cannot identify the source of this data.” - The Location Data cache is stored longer than expected due to software bug.
Apple also mentions:
Software Update
Sometime in the next few weeks Apple will release a free iOS software update that:
- reduces the size of the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database cached on the iPhone,
- ceases backing up this cache, and
- deletes this cache entirely when Location Services is turned off.
In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone.
“Next Major iOS Software Release” could mean iOS 5.
