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So "Hell" was the name of their program for tracking Lyft drivers, and "Heaven" or "God View" was the name of their program for tracking Uber passengers. The al
by snarf 9y ago
So "Hell" was the name of their program for tracking Lyft drivers, and "Heaven" or "God View" was the name of their program for tracking Uber passengers. The allegations of Uber employees abusing the privacy of individual passengers using God View go back to at least 2014, so this actually isn't anything new, just more specifics about who they were spying on. See here for a screenshot of their God View emailed to a journalist without her permission: https://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-its-top-new-york-executive-for-privacy https://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating...
And see here for their cute Dr. Evil mascot that's part of their God View, which doesn't seem so funny any more: https://www.engadget.com/2014/11/19/uber-godview-tracking/ https://www.engadget.com/2014/11/19/uber-godview-tracking/
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- bpicolo 9y ago> See here for a screenshot of their God View emailed to a journalist without her permission That screenshot doesn't really have anything bad in it, to be fair. It's a view of their cars in the city.
- bonzini 9y agoNo, it shows the last two weeks of Uber activity for the journalist: https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-11/18/22/enhanced/webdr12/longform-original-5450-1416369283-9.png?output-format=auto&output-quality=auto https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-11/18/2...
- bpicolo 9y agoAh, sure. Is the complaint that they make that readily available to some set of people? It'd be silly to not expect them to have rider history in general
- celticninja 9y agoThere is a difference between having anonymised data available for analysis and individuals having direct access to complete individual data sets.