Last year, social networking app Path came under fire when it was discovered that the company was collecting contact data from user address books without permission and storing that information on its servers. Today the company has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, with terms that require Path to receive privacy assessments for the next 20 years and establish what the FTC calls a "comprehensive" privacy policy. It will also have to pay a fine of $800,000 for collecting information from children without obtaining parental consent. Path admits that early in its history, it accepted signups from users under the age of 13. “This settlement with Path shows that no matter what new technologies emerge, the agency will...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/1/3940814/path-settles-with-ftc-over-address-book-controversy
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