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<title>Path to pay $800K fine for collecting info from children</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/01/company.made.to.establish.long.term.privacy.program/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1202/path-iphone.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[To settle charges of obtaining personal data from children without parental consent, Path has agreed to pay an $800,000 fine and set up a privacy program, the US Federal Trade Commission has announced.  To comply with privacy concerns, Path will moreover have to get independent privacy assessments performed every other year for the next 20 years.  The core issue is only indirectly related to probl...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple enables promised privacy safeguards in iOS 6</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/14/new.version.will.now.require.explicit.permission.for.info.access/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/top_image_thumb/1339507393_ios-6-top2_255.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple's forthcoming iOS 6 will contain a change in app permissions, one that is aimed at increasing user privacy in the wake of embarrassing security breaches involving iOS apps. In the new version of iOS, apps will be prohibited from accessing certain user information without explicit user consent....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lenses added to Path for Android </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/19/path.android.gaining.ios.app.features/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/samsunggalaxynexus-instagram.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Users of Path can now use Lenses on the Android version (Free, Google Play) of the social network-enabled photo sharing app. Lenses, available to iOS Path members for the last year, allow the user to apply filters to the viewfinder, before taking the photograph itself....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Path app for Windows Phone under development says CEO</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/25/path.set.to.arrive.on.wp7/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/path-iphone.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The popular social networking Path (Free, App Store) is under development according to the companyís CEO Dave Morin. Currently the app is only available on iOS and Android (Free, Google Play) and already has a user base of over 2 million. Morin said that although the iOS platform accounts for 80 percent of its development time, he believes that Microsoftís Windows Phone 7 OS is ëimpressive.í...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple, iOS app makers targets of questionable privacy suit</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/path-iphone.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A new lawsuit (below) filed last week and uncovered on Friday by CNET could try and take Apple and key iOS app writers to task for alleged unapproved contact access.  The potential class action case accuses those who've admitted to any access, such as Path, Twitter, and Instagram, of violating privacy by becoming "mobile radio beacons" that were "broadcasting and publicly exposing" contact lists t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Path co-founder allegedly 'grilled' by Apple CEO Tim Cook</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1202/path-iphone.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The co-founder of Path, Dave Morin, was recently called over to Apple headquarters to be "grilled" by CEO Tim Cook and some other company executives, according to Bloomberg.  The news agency cites "people familiar with the meeting" as sources.  The ultimate outcome of the event is unmentioned in the new report....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Instagram for Android in beta, may be better than iOS app</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/11/instagram.on.android.briefly.shown.at.sxsw/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/samsunggalaxynexus-instagram.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Instagram's co-creator Kevin Systrom used a presentation at South by Southwest's technology conference to show the Android version of the company's app.  Currently in a closed beta, it will support multiple screen resolutions and should run very quickly.  Although shy on what it meant, he hinted that there would be some features that the iOS edition was so far lacking, if not permanently going wit...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Path 2.1 adds Nike+ updates, music ID</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/path21.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Path updated its self-titled iOS app (App Store) Thursday to uniquely combine features from other activities in its social stream.  By using a newly available API to plug other services into Path, the title can now automatically posts Nike+ GPS runs as generated by the Nike app, taking them once they've reached the cloud.  A Shazam-like music matching feature can now identify nearby music and prov...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Congress asks Apple to answer questions on developer data</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1202/path-iphone.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[US House Energy &amp; Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Commerce Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Chair G.K. Butterfield have together sent a letter to Apple, asking whether "iOS app developer policies and practices may fall short when it comes to protecting the information of iPhone users and their contacts," notes The Next Web.  The letter quotes sections of the iOS Developer Center s...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Twitter admits to storing iPhone contact info for 18 months</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1110/ios5-twitter2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Twitter has reportedly admitted that it currently stores smartphone contact information for 18 months after users initiate the "find friends" feature found in the company's mobile apps. The data stored on the company's servers includes address book fields such as names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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