Twitter admitted to using user address books

The administration of microblogging service Twitter recognized that it copied address books from users' smartphones without notifying them about it.

Representatives of the company said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that the official Twitter clients for smartphones copied all contacts from users' phones, after they clicked on the “Find Friends” button. Information is stored on Twitter servers for a year and a half. Interestingly, neither in the description of the application, nor even in the privacy policy of the service there is information about it.
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In fact, any user can now sue Twitter for unlawfully copying friends' contacts on the phone. The company promised to update the application and replace the button with “Download your contacts” on the iPhone and “Import your contacts” on Android.

A Twitter spokeswoman, Carolyn Penner, said that users can remove address databases via https://twitter.com/#!/who_to_follow/import .

Last week, another popular service, Path, was blamed for this. As it turned out, he also stores on his servers lists of contacts from users ’phones.