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It's the exact same regulatory information that lyft and taxicab companies hand over to regulators.
by steven2012 10y ago
It's the exact same regulatory information that lyft and taxicab companies hand over to regulators.
- arca_vorago 10y agoWhich is?
- hackuser 10y agoHow do you know?
- mirimir 10y agoWhen I hail a taxi on the street, and pay cash, what does the driver/company know about me? They could take photos, collect DNA, etc. But there's no metadata, as there is with Uber and Lyft.
- oh_sigh 10y agoThey know where you got picked up, where you got dropped off, how you paid
- sleepychu 10y agoYeah, so your parent is asking how much Uber, who obviously know more information about their riders than LocalTaxiCashCo., are doing to remove the excess on their responses to regulatory requests.
- mirimir 10y agoRight. But they don't know my identity.
- oh_sigh 10y agoThat's not the only thing regulators care about. In fact, frequently they don't care about a persons identity. They may want to know things like whether certain neighborhoods are being over/underserved
- mirimir 10y agoI'm not concerned about the regulators. What concerns me is the easy access by police and TLAs to so much data about who went where, when, and with whom. Mass surveillance, complementing collection through all the other methods.
- catfest 10y agoThe exact same information is collected by public transport systems where you have a pass which you top up with your credit card, if the authorities want access to this data they just get in touch with the transit authority. I hate it and avoid these systems where possible.
- eli 10y agoDepending on the city, they report exactly the same data as Uber/Lyft: pickup location, dropoff location, date & time, fare amount.
- mirimir 10y agoDo we actually know that? I got the impression that they were reporting much more than that. Maybe not to regulators. But to police and TLAs, presumably without warrants. That's the key concern, here. Another form of mass surveillance.