I can hardly believe that only one company, Path in this case, were downloading user’s address book. I’m sure others are, were, or will be doing so too The reality we live in is that we often have a false sense of security and privacy. It’s not like the bad guys would be waiting to hear about some security vulnerability before attempting to discover and exploit them. Likewise, the talk is on address book download today, tomorrow another company be found using your mobile location or device’s camera for some unpublished uses.