I’m Marco Arment: a programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast. February 9, 2012 ∞https://marco.org/2012/02/09/ios-address-book-should-prompt-users The popular Path app was caught uploading and permanently storing people’s entire address books on Path’s servers. People were upset, but what’s scarier is the bigger issue: apparently, this is a very common practice among popular apps.