Even given the reporters' privilege, the First Amendment has nothing to do with whether it's legal (or stupid) for Path to be uploading his address book to thei

Even given the reporters' privilege, the First Amendment has nothing to do with whether it's legal (or stupid) for Path to be uploading his address book to their servers. Path is not the government. That means he's not only a sloppy journalist for not explaining his First Amendment point, but he's doubly sloppy for implying that he talked to any lawyers while writing this article. Because if he did, they'd have said "Go check out jaylevitt's excellent comment on HN explaining why that's irrelevant."