Path should have been kicked off the App Store and all the people involved should have been banned from any future Apple app.

Uploading personal details from a users address book is unforgivable and a total breach of the trust we have with our devices.

It's about time Apple made a scapegoat of a big developer.

iOS has needed better protection of user data for a while. Thankfully the Path event raised this to the level required to get changes made.

I look forward to the improved privacy options that will be introduced on future iOS releases.

There are many apps stealing your details, thankfully that will soon be more controllable.

Considering all of the garbage apps Apple allows past their approval process, I think this is Apple's fault.

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Where is Tallest when you need a jpg?

Good on you Tim. Keeping the customer king will keep the $$s flowing your way,

In the app store prior to purchase, the description of the above program discloses that it will indeed upload just the names of all of your contacts so that its voice recognition servers can be more accurate later on. Likewise, it also states that it will log all of your dictation to their servers, again to improve the service over time. After purchase, you are presented with the license agreement where it is again stated & you have to agree to it. I didn't & deleted the app,; never used it. I am grateful the company, Nuance Communications, disclosed properly.

These actions from Apple re affirms the faith customers have in them, unlike Google who have become have a huge global advertisement agency instead of the innovative company it began in the first place.

Personally, I would like Apple to completely block off apps from accessing information of the users without even an option of the user enabling the share accidentally. If I want to share my personal information and the information of my contacts I can as well choose Android or be on Facebook.

I don't know what apple have done to prevent these kind of sly uploading of information, but Tim cook did say that they will fix it in later updates of iOS, not sure if he meant 5.1 or later.