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An employee at Path might very well decide to start looking through that data. There have been other cases where employees gave in to temptation to access someo
by cstejerean 15y ago
An employee at Path might very well decide to start looking through that data. There have been other cases where employees gave in to temptation to access someone's data. Imagine for example if a celebrity is involved and someone decides to leak their address book.
Now one would hope that employees wouldn't have unrestricted data to this access, but one would also hope Path wouldn't do this in the first place. The fact that they collect all this information in the first place, unnecessarily and without consent does not inspire much confidence in their internal safeguards for access to this data.
Also, if anything were to happen to the company, it's hard to know what hands all that data will end up in.
- shalmanese 15y agoI don't know any of the Path employees personally, why would they decide to go after me? The possibility seems rather remote.
- revdinosaur 15y agoMaybe not you personally, but think of the NOW scandal going on right now. Information about people's mobile contact info is valuable to a number of organizations in ways not immediately apparent.
- shalmanese 15y agoAlso, for apps with private messaging systems like Path, I'd be far more concerned about rogue employees looking through the messages I send than contact list data. I'm far more likely to have sensitive information in there.