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Solve : iPhone apps Path and Hipster offer address-book apology?

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The makers of two IPHONE apps have apologised after it emerged they had uploaded USERS address-book information without explicit permission.

Path and Hipster both sent contact data to company servers in order to help users find friends who were also using the apps.

Both companies said they had now updated their apps to fix the problem.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16962129Freaky, but all the Storm8 apps have been doing SOMETHING along these lines for years. They HOLD your phone number and other information as soon as you run any of their (NUMEROUS) apps.



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