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Just uploaded #voutiro no.7 Sunday, 21 April 2013 - Μιχάλης Αρφαράς to Mixcloud. Listen now!

Just uploaded #voutiro no.5 Sunday, 24 March 2013 - w/ Ορέστης Συμβουλίδης, @HRHArtemakotati & @MiniRaiden to Mixcloud. Listen now!

Just uploaded #voutiro no.6 Sunday, 31 March 2013 - Μαρίά Πολυζωΐδου to Mixcloud. Listen now!

Just uploaded #voutiro no.4 Sunday, 17 March 2013 - w/ @tpagakis to Mixcloud. Listen now!

Πού είν’αυτό, μαρή αγορίνα; :)

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@akenoti @ifigenai #thanassis #asfa #postgrad #athens

Tea at the National Archaeological Museum. I really DO enjoy #Athens :P #Greece

Παρουσιάση βιβλίου Θανάση Βαλτινού στο Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας. #estia #bookstore #athens

Today I finished another 5K run.
I regularly use the Nike+ app on my iPhone for many reasons.
One of those reasons is that one can simultaneously post the data of any given run on Facebook, Twitter and lately on Path right through the Nike+ app itself. While posting the app gave a fair amount of control to the user as far as data postings were concerned: where would you post your run and whether you wished to broadcast your route as well or not.
A great thing with apps is their regularity. You have so much to do every day so you tend to enjoy the no-surprise routine of an app you use almost daily for a specific task that you enjoy.
Then Nike+ announced that Path would jointly share your runs to your friends on the app and that was ok - the more the merrier. It was all smooth sailing.
But today something that really pissed me off crept up: underneath the Facebook option to post your route’s map along with it’s ON/OFF slider I barely noticed in teeny tiny lettering that Path would post my route to its service whether I liked it or not.
So that meant that I must have unwittingly posted at least half a dozen maps of my routes in plain sight on the Path app without permission practically leading anyone to my front door without my knowledge.
Seriously. Are people on the Path app team on drugs?????
As a Facebook friend wrote earlier today there are two currencies as far as social apps are concerned: data and trust. When one of the two is missing or misused it’s not just wrong - it’s an outrage.
I’m going to be posting this on every social media I can find because Path has been too cavalier with our data for quite some time now: they have already downloaded our contacts’ info to their servers - AGAIN without permission - and after a public outcry on the matter they simply feigned “innocence”.
Wonder if that already lame excuse will serve them equally well now.

But I also wonder: how and especially why did Nike allow such s blatant disregard for its consumers’ private data from a third-party service piggybacking on their own app?
Completely disgraceful - and alarming as well.