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February 12, 2012, 4:05 PM

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Nick Bilton / Bits:

Anger for Path Social Network After Privacy Breach — Last week, Arun Thampi, a programmer in Singapore, discovered that the mobile social network Path was surreptitiously copying address book information from users' iPhones without notifying them. — David Morin, Path's voluble chief executive …

More: Ars Technica. Tweets: @monstro, @tedr, @arrington, @cdixon, @davewiner, @mathewi and @blam

Matt Gemmell:

Hashing for privacy in social apps — Three days ago, Arun Thampi blogged about his discovery that the Path social networking app uploads the user's entire iPhone address book to its servers. There's been extensive industry media coverage of this, and a new version of Path has been released …

More: Marco.org, Chris Dixon, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and MacStories

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

I'm So, So Sorry. Here's My Belly. Now Please Move On. — Don't get mad at companies because they apologize so quickly. It's the only way to survive in the Internet. — “All this social media nonsense is destroying our community,” a prominent venture capitalist told me on the phone a couple of weeks ago.

Tweets: @davewiner

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Following Path's contact fiasco, Instagram silently adds a contact list access prompt

More: MacGazette, PC Magazine and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @mattgemmell, @marcoarment and @marcoarment

Thanks:@m4tt

Mike Swift / Mercury News:

Google has intriguing plans at the Googleplex — Google (GOOG) is in the midst of more than $120 million in construction projects at its Mountain View headquarters, including work on a series of new or previously secret hardware testing labs that hint at the Internet giant's expanding interest …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, 9to5Google and Electronista. Tweets: @dondodge

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

‘Saturday Night Live’ accurately skewers Verizon 4G advertising — Leave it to the writers of NBC's Saturday Night Live to sum up the confusion for average customers over 4G and 3G speeds with this hilarious send-up of Verizon advertising. It's not clear what the pitch is here, but it sounds pretty good to us.

More: Business Insider, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, 9to5Mac, GadgeTell, WebProNews and UnleashthePhones. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Rahul Mathur / Windows Phone Sauce:

Breaking: Microsoft Store India has been hacked! (Update: Database hacked, Passwords exposed) — We just got tipped by Aman that Microsoft India store has been hacked. I just checked it a minute back and he was right. It has been hacked. This is the homepage at this moment (10:00 PM IST):

More: Engadget, VentureBeat, The Verge, India IT Blog, Techie Buzz, BGR India, Electronista and WebProNews. Thanks:@weemundo

David Pierce / The Verge:

Google TV ‘big announcements’ coming on Monday — Rumors have been flying about some big changes for Google TV, and now it looks like we're going to be hearing something official tomorrow — Google posted cryptically on the Google TV Facebook page this weekend, saying only, “Get ready for Monday, we have some big announcements!”

More: CNET, 9to5Google, GeekTonic, Business Insider, Android Phone Fans, Android and Me, and Electronista. Tweets: @edbott

Graham Cluley / Naked Security:

VIDEO: Boston Police hits back at Anonymous with sarcasm — Is it possible to fight Anonymous? — The movement is proud of saying that an idea can't be arrested or killed, but it seems like the Boston Police Department has thought of one way of fighting back: sarcasm.

More: The Boston Globe, Techie Buzz and Network World. Thanks:@sophoslabs

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple requests U.S. preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus based on four high-power patents — Apple has brought a motion in the United States for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus, the official Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich") lead device developed by Samsung in close cooperation with Google.

Andy Baio / Wired:

The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox — The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click. — As I was about to connect my Gmail account, my finger hovered over the “Grant access” button.

More: VentureBeat and Boing Boing. Tweets: @dragonflyeye, @waxpancake, @tcarmody and @digiphile

Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:

Malaysia has reportedly deported a Saudi journalist facing the death penalty for his tweets — Being arrested for a tweet or a Facebook post in the Middle East is certainly nothing new. We've seen activists and journalists questioned, sentenced and imprisoned based on statements made on both social networks.

More: Agence France Presse and Global Voices

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Apple TVs are disappearing from shelves, could see an update next month as well — Last year, we learned that the new iPad is codenamed 'J2′ in the iOS 5.1Beta software and last week, we learned that it will likely be announced at the beginning of next month.

More: MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News and Electronista

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