> The risk of abuse is exceptionally low. But there's no oversight whatsoever. We should just take Uber's word for that -- despite the company's public track r

> The risk of abuse is exceptionally low. But there's no oversight whatsoever. We should just take Uber's word for that -- despite the company's public track record of repeated privacy violations in the past? And even if Uber itself has suddenly converted into an unimpeachable guardian of personal privacy, it could always be hacked (and probably already has, just like the NSA and everyone else.) The hackers are not likely to share the same moral compunctions about privacy.