Path, the social networking application has been storing your address book in a remote server without you being in the know. Developer, Arun Thampi noticed and published the hitch when he was trying to develop a Path 2 application for Mac OS. When Thampi was using the API to develop the application, he noticed that his entire contact list with phone numbers, names and emails was being sent as a list to Path. When Path CEO and founder Dave Morin replied to Thampi, it was discovered that this was actually an industry practice and most applications access your contact list and store it in a remote server. Morin says, "This is currently the industry best practice and the App Store guidelines do not specifically discuss contact information."
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