Hipster (like Path) uploads your address book emails to its servers
I wrote a little MobileSubstrate (Jailbroken iPhone) shim to intercept the most common API used to access this data, block its use, and alert the user when it's happening.<p><a href="https://github.com/bri3d/AddressBookPrivacy/downloads" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bri3d/AddressBookPrivacy/downloads</a><p>It should be available in the BigBoss repository as "Address Book Privacy" sometime tomorrow.<p>My tweak catches and displays the use of address book data as it happens, and based on my observations I think the Hipster version of address book theft is a lot less egregious than the Path one. Hipster accesses your address book only when you ask it to "Find Friends" - "Contacts" is selected by default. While this certainly shouldn't be the case, it's nowhere near as bad as Path, which sends all your contacts without asking <i>every time you log in</i> (along with again if you select "Find Friends").