An invitation mail arrives at the other party of the phone book after deleting the social application "Path"



Social network service that can share photos and messages only with close friends like family and friends "PathIn spite of deleting the Path application from the smartphone, there was a problem that an invitation mail was being sent to everyone in the address book. Because the user himself did not remember to allow the invitation to be sent, he suspects that Path steals data in the address book.

The antisocial network: Path texts my entire phonebook at 6am | Branded 3
http://www.branded3.com/blogs/the-antisocial-network-path-texts-my-entire-phonebook-at-6am/


Path is spamming address books with unwanted texts and robocalls - again | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/30/4286090/path-is-spamming-address-books-with-unwanted-texts-and-robocalls


Path reached 10 million registered users on April 29th.


Stefan Kenwright, who had never used Path before, installed a Path app on his smartphone as this is a good opportunity. However, I decided it was not suitable for me, I uninstalled it in about an hour.

The next morning at 6 o'clock, one invoice to Kenlight's father's work / private mobile phone, 1 invitation e-mail encouraging signup to Path "Kenlight is about to share photos with you" Has arrived. At the same time also from my grandparents, Ken Wright says he wants to share picturesRobocorThere was a phone calling that there was, Kenlight saw that something strange happened.

While I was going to the office, my lady from my relatives said, "E-mails to share photos have reached the mobile phone, and home phones are ringing, but smartphones do not have a phone so please send me a photo?" Ken Wright who was informed that he or she was informed that he or she was asked to share what kind of photos?


On Twitter, I bumped the following question against Path official account.

@path why are you texting people in my address book at 6:30 am? Even after I uninstalled your app? That's ridiculous.
(Why did you send an e-mail to the people in my address book at 6:30 in the morning, although you had already uninstalled your app, it's strange.)


Mr. Ken Wright examined, in January 2013 the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) found out that it released a release saying "Path is improperly acquiring personal information from the address book of the terminal" It was.

Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges it Deceived Consumers and Improperly Collected Personal Information from Users' Mobile Address Books
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/02/path.shtm


In the previous year, in February 2012, Path apologizes as having acquired personal information without obtaining user's permission from the address book of the terminal.

We are sorry. - Path
http://blog.path.com/post/17274932484/we-are-sorry


Therefore, Mr. Ken Wright speculated that Path used the address book without permission to send mail, but in the evening of this day, a person in charge of Path contacted us and "The application has been deleted Although it is true that there was a problem that an invitation mail was sent "although an invitation mail is sent", the function itself of sending an invitation mail to the person listed in the registered user's address book is the regular one which is installed , He explained that he did not do something like getting the contents of the address book.

Regarding the matter that "invitation mail is being spread by all parties in the address book", there are many people who also occurred other than this case of Ken Wright, and even Reddit of social bookmarking service has become a topic of discussion . According to Reddit users, Path sometimes asks you to send an invitation email to all friends on the address book when you first register for membership, and here you can choose "unselect all" Although mail is not sent, it seems that there are many cases where e-mails are being sent to all friends overlooking because all is selected by default.

In addition, although only mail is sent to the end, some providers offer a service that automatically converts to RoboCol when e-mail is sent towards a fixed phone that can not send and receive mail However, it is believed that this service is responsible for "nuisance phone".

The specification to send an invitation mail to everyone was added on March 6 update and because of this reworking, Path is currently increasing the number of users by 1 million people per week. However, I also know that users are dissatisfied with their voices.

In Path, I comment on why the invitation mail was sent after uninstalling the application for a while, but I investigate the cause of the delay, but Ken Wright said "no" to not send an invitation mail in the first place I should have chosen a headache.

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