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Well it's the same company that creepily gives me a code interview in the app because it knows I go to a software company couple of times a week and pushes a jo
by nojvek 10y ago
Well it's the same company that creepily gives me a code interview in the app because it knows I go to a software company couple of times a week and pushes a job ad.
Uber has a lot of sensitive information regarding users. Who goes where and when. This in the wrong hand can be very disastrous. E.g Trump to Uber: "gimme list of all people who to to mosques frequently. No tax for you." Uber: "Here you go. Just don't tell anyone. "
- lbotos 10y agoWhile I love this scenario from a "Trump could abuse his power" narrative, have there been any recorded cases of businesses in America getting "Secret" tax breaks? Seems like it'd be pretty hard to pull off with the IRS. Sure, maybe they "Bundled" that data it in to some ~other~ lobbied tax deal, but I'd imagine someone would whistle blow that pretty quick in this post-snowden world?
- abstrakraft 10y ago>> Seems like it'd be pretty hard to pull off with the IRS. Unless the IRS itself is the instrument of abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
- hackuser 10y ago> have there been any recorded cases of businesses in America getting "Secret" tax breaks? The tax law itself isn't secret, but companies certainly lobby for and receive tax breaks and other benefits passed openly by Congress. That's what lobbying is about, of course.
- r00fus 10y agoPost-snowden? We all know about it but the power abuse still happens.
- pmiller2 10y agoCode interview in the app? What do you mean?
- TAForObvReasons 10y agofirst search result: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-recruiting-engineers-through-in-app-coding-test-2016-3 http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-recruiting-engineers-thr...
- confounded 10y agoNo tax break needed.
- xapata 10y agoYou do know that your phone company already has that info, right?
- 0xmohit 10y agoYour bank has information about your accounts. So it should be ok to make it public, right?
- xapata 10y agoHow did you make that leap? But, the card companies do sell your data in "aggregate". The phone companies as well.
- wallace_f 10y agoFair point, however just because the phone company/NSA has this information, IMHO that doesn't make unnecessarily intrusive apps OK with me.
- xapata 10y agoTo each his own. In my view, the cat's out of the bag, so I might as well get a better product out of it.
- cowpig 10y ago:(
- wallace_f 10y agoWell, to me it's a problem. Here is an example of the kind of thing that is already happening: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161130/09293036157/brooklyn-prosecutor-forged-judges-signatures-wiretap-warrants-to-eavesdrop-love-interest.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161130/09293036157/brook... To me, if 1 is getting caught, it makes me question how many are not getting caught. Or are getting caught and let off the hook because the people around them won't hold them accountable. If we continue to allow this, we're just going to expand the amount of abuse. And yes I know Uber is tracking location not access to your phone's mic.
- kirykl 10y agoSorry to disrupt your narrative but a theoretical action by Trump is worse than what's already happened under Obama? http://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/477921/ http://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/477921/
- magicalist 10y ago> During that time period, state and federal law enforcement requested information on 408 riders and 205 drivers. Uber, however, only fully complied with 32 percent of requests, while partially complying with 53 percent of requests. Not exactly an epidemic.
- kirykl 10y agoBut that's not my point. My point is actual exploitation of Ubers data that's already happened, is worse than fear mongering politically biased hypotheticals
- guelo 10y agoIf you look at Uber's actual transparency report you'll see the feds only requested 65 records. The governments doing the mass data requests were mostly local, state, airports and courts: https://transparencyreport.uber.com/ https://transparencyreport.uber.com/
- dec0dedab0de 10y agoi got one of those, it definitely creeped me out
- orange_county 10y agoHow come no one is throwing fuss about this for Google's foobar challenge? This is the same exact thing. In today's time, we give up privacy for convenience. If you use a smart phone, Facebook, windows/google anything you are already giving up privacy. Stop pretending that 5 mins location monitoring is a big deal.
- swyman 10y agoStop pretending people can't decide for themselves how much privacy they want and from whom
- orange_county 10y agoThey can decide, they choose by not using the product.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoHmm I got the Uber challenge quite frequently but I've never gotten this Google one. How do I find this?
- newscracker 10y ago> In today's time, we give up privacy for convenience. If you use a smart phone, Facebook, windows/google anything you are already giving up privacy. Stop pretending that 5 mins location monitoring is a big deal. I find it quite disturbing to see ridiculous comments where one wrong is made right by pointing to other wrongs. We wouldn't need any laws or law enforcement if such logic were to be followed in every area of life. "There are full body scanners at airports. Stop pretending that putting curtains at home is going to help." "There are surveillance cameras in many places. Stop pretending that controlling the privacy of your personal photos really matters." I'm sure I can imagine many other comebacks if I spend more time on this.
- EasyTiger_ 10y agoThat's a dramatic and very silly example.