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Uber was tracking people after they left their rides, and it's unsure if they ever stopped. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/01/503985473/

• hsod 10y ago
  OK, but that's different from tracking people after they've deleted the app.
  • vlozko 10y ago
    I'm genuinely curious how that would even work on the technical level. As an app developer, I'm not making the connection here as to how iOS would even allow that. Edit: Read up a bit more on it. Turns out it was the practice of fingerprinting and tracking after re-installs, not after an uninstall. TechCrunch provided a better technical description: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/23/uber-responds-to-report-that-it-tracked-users-who-deleted-its-app/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/23/uber-responds-to-report-th...
    • stingrae 10y ago
      To me it seems like this is mischaracterized to make it sound worse than it is. Can someone explain why people are making a big deal about this practice?
      • pm90 10y ago
        Its because its fashionable to beat the horse that Uber is a terrible company led by a terrible man. I personally am no fan of Uber or Travis, but I do get disgusted sometimes when the media hypes certain perceptions to an inappropriate degree. So for all means continue to investigate the seemingly terrible and anti-women culture and the fraudulent stealing of Technology from Google. But like you said, don't mischaracterize other facts to make them sound more terrible than what they really are.
      • florean 10y ago
        Because it violated their agreement with Apple and accessed private APIs, infringed on user privacy, and they geofenced the behavior to try to sneak it past app review. It's another example of Uber knowingly being evil.
      • memmcgee 10y ago
        Well for one, it's against Apple's rules to do this. And just because it's "industry practice" doesn't mean you get a free pass.