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		natesm on Feb 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to it... Hashing doesn't let you match Kate, Katie, Katherine as the same person like Facebook does, however.

tlrobinson on Feb 7, 2012 | [–]

Normalization could be done on the client, however I don't think Path matches users by name anyway.

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