{"id":4323,"date":"2012-02-12T16:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2012-02-12T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T22:21:43","slug":"disruptions-so-many-apologies-so-much-data-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4323","title":{"rendered":"Disruptions: So Many Apologies, So Much Data Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/12\/disruptions-so-many-apologies-so-much-data-mining\/\">Nick Bilton:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Last week, Arun Thampi, a programmer in Singapore, discovered that the mobile social network Path was surreptitiously copying address book information from users\u2019 iPhones without notifying them.<Br><Br><\/p>\n<p>David Morin, Path\u2019s voluble chief executive, quickly commented on Mr. Thampi\u2019s blog that Path\u2019s actions were an \u201cindustry best practice.\u201d He then became uncharacteristically quiet as the Internet disagreed and erupted in outrage. Amid his silence, he did take the time to reply to the actress Alyssa Milano, who was one of hundreds who questioned Path\u2019s practices. (His reply to her via Twitter contained his personal e-mail address.)<Br><Br><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Morin seemed unconcerned about how people could be harmed by his company\u2019s carelessness. Consider this: Amira El Ahl, a foreign journalist covering the Middle East, said bloggers in Egypt and Tunisia are often approached online who are state security in disguise.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Bilton: Last week, Arun Thampi, a programmer in Singapore, discovered that the mobile social network Path was surreptitiously copying address book information from users\u2019 iPhones without notifying them. David Morin, Path\u2019s voluble chief executive, quickly commented on Mr. Thampi\u2019s blog that Path\u2019s actions were an \u201cindustry best practice.\u201d He then became uncharacteristically quiet as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}