Address Book articles

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  LinkedIn's new Contacts app aims to replace your phone's address book

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on April 25, 2013 09:00 am + 26 comments

  LinkedIn has become the default online resume, but now it’s hoping to take over the address book Continue reading…

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  Path will pay $800,000 in FTC settlement over privacy controversy

  By Chris Welch on February 1, 2013 10:44 am + 14 comments

  Last year, social networking app Path came under fire when it was discovered that the company was c Continue reading…

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  WhatsApp's contact collection practices violate Dutch and Canadian privacy laws

  By Kimber Streams on January 28, 2013 02:53 pm + 21 comments

  Popular messaging platform WhatsApp is in violation of Dutch and Canadian privacy laws because it Continue reading…

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  Intelligent address book Cobook launches for Mac

  By Ellis Hamburger on May 24, 2012 09:24 am + 23 comments

  Cobook, a smart address book that lives in your menu bar, is launching for free today in the Mac App Continue reading…

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  Path 2.1.1 released, 'hashes' contact information for enhanced privacy

  By Sam Byford on April 2, 2012 09:15 pm + 3 comments

  The promised 2.1.1 update for Path that "hashes" and anonymizes uploaded contact data is now Continue reading…

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  US Congress expands probe of iOS app privacy to 34 developers after it says Apple failed to answer its questions

  By T.C. Sottek on March 22, 2012 08:21 pm + 14 comments

  Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Fred Upton (R-MI) sent letters to Apple and 33 iOS app Continue reading…

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  Path will protect private user data with 'hashing' in next release

  By Dieter Bohn on March 8, 2012 03:18 pm + 11 comments

  Path's big 2.1 release today comes with a promise of another update coming shortly: version 2.1.1. Continue reading…

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  iOS address book privacy: app developers and Apple respond

  By Adi Robertson on February 15, 2012 02:40 pm

  After a series of high-profile iOS apps have been revealed to surreptitiously upload address book Continue reading…

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  Apple: iOS to require explicit permission for contact data in 'future software release'

  By Dieter Bohn on February 15, 2012 02:04 pm + 123 comments

  Following a full week of drama about the unfettered access all apps have to iOS contacts, Apple has Continue reading…

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  iOS apps and the address book: who has your data, and how they're getting it

  By Dieter Bohn on February 14, 2012 08:22 pm + 156 comments

  Over the course of the past week, a firestorm has erupted in the world of iOS apps, thanks to the Continue reading…