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>Uber requires you to identify yourself, both to order a cab and to pay. Yeah. If you deal with money, there is no other way to build a business. Right or wron
by macspoofing 12y ago
>Uber requires you to identify yourself, both to order a cab and to pay.
Yeah. If you deal with money, there is no other way to build a business. Right or wrong, you just can't anonymize financial transactions.
>Uber's clever policy of not being directly responsible for anything that goes wrong extends to harassment by drivers, and its practice of identifying passengers enables drivers to find out who the passenger is.
That's a good point. I don't think it would hold up in court if something were to happen (e.g. driver robs or kills a passenger).
>Uber plans to do away with human cab drivers.
If Uber doesn't do it, somebody else will. Can't stop progress.
The privacy issues that he raises in other points are pretty good as well.
On a separate matter, though I was never a FSF zealot it pains me to see how irrelevant the FSF and Stallman became this decade.
- waterlesscloud 12y agoI make regular financial transactions all the time with people who have not the slightest clue what my name is.
- macspoofing 12y agoCash? I'm not sure you can make an online business without disclosing some data about yourself.
- MichaelGG 12y agoFinancial transactions don't require ID. Cash, alternative currencies (not that BTC is anonymous), or prepaid credit cards all work. The anti-progress-cause-jobs is silly and makes RMS look bad and hypocritical.
- MichaelGG 12y agoFinancial transactions don't require ID. Cash, alternative currencies (not that BTC is anonymous), or prepaid credit cards all work. The anti-progress-cause-jobs is silly and makes RMS look bad and hypocritical. Of course, adding in crazy claims is part of the RMS marketing MO.