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Uber tracking users for more than the ride? Yep.

Posted on August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 by milton

Uber has stated it will be discontinuing a surveillance mechanism in the app that tracking users of the ride hailing service for up to 5 minutes after the service ended. This is yet another bad practice that has gotten the already embattled company into hot water with consumers. #security #surveillance

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/uber-to-stop-tracking-customers-after-ride-is-over/

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