<story><title>We are sorry</title><url>http://blog.path.com/post/17274932484/we-are-sorry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phillco</author><text>I would bold it if I were them. It&apos;s a nicely written message, but it reads like a lot of other PR apologies and it&apos;s easy to skim over it, deep in its position in the 5th paragraph.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you need to &lt;i&gt;make&lt;/i&gt; actions speak louder than words. :)</text></item><item><author>hexis</author><text>Key paragraph: &quot;We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. We also believe that actions speak louder than words. So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers. Your trust matters to us and we want you to feel completely in control of your information on Path.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Great save for a bad mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gorgonville</author><text>&amp;#62;We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts&lt;p&gt;Better would have been &apos;we are sorry we misused your phone contacts&apos;, rather than trying to make the users responsible by invoking their feelings.&lt;p&gt;Aside: interesting how the concept of theft seems meaningless when applied to copyrighted material, but meaningful when applied to private data.</text></comment>
<story><title>We are sorry</title><url>http://blog.path.com/post/17274932484/we-are-sorry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phillco</author><text>I would bold it if I were them. It&apos;s a nicely written message, but it reads like a lot of other PR apologies and it&apos;s easy to skim over it, deep in its position in the 5th paragraph.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you need to &lt;i&gt;make&lt;/i&gt; actions speak louder than words. :)</text></item><item><author>hexis</author><text>Key paragraph: &quot;We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. We also believe that actions speak louder than words. So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers. Your trust matters to us and we want you to feel completely in control of your information on Path.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Great save for a bad mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmbass</author><text>I think you mean &quot;make your words as bold as your actions.&quot; :)</text></comment>