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Uber Revises Privacy Policy, Wants More Data From Users
itwbennett tips news that Uber has amended its privacy policy, making it much simpler to read and understand. But the policy also includes changes to what data Uber collects about its riders. Beginning July 15th, the Uber phone app will keep track of a rider's location while it's running in the background. Uber says riders will be able to opt out of this tracking. The policy changes also allow for advertising using the rider's contact list: "for example the ability to send special offers to riders' friends or family." The revision of Uber's privacy policy followed complaints at the end of last year that the company was overstepping its bounds.
adware-infested installers, perhaps hosted on SourceForge, which could also track customers.
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Wait, you think a user can give you permission to spam their friends and family?
Someone at Uber has been studying the LinkedIn business plan.
No, they should start spamming the *friends and family* of the owners of Uber with eggs. After all, clearly they opted in to such treatment by being related to or friends of the people who did this, right?
And, of course, since they've given themselves permission to share with 3rd parties (again, to make themselves money) ... then they've also give permission to doxx them and their families.
Everything about this screams "greedy assholes trying to leverage your personal information for profit while loudly saying taxi regulations don't apply"
The more I hear about Uber, the harder is is to think this isn't a purely criminal enterprise.
Let's see, you want to do location tracking of everybody with your app, and you want access to their private information, and you claim the right to pass that on to 3rd parties ... yeah, no.
How about drop dead you greedy bastards?
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You're completely fucking stupid, eh?
Look, whatever libertarian fantasy world you live in which says a company gets to ignore regulations because their asshole business model says they're special is full of shit. In fact, it's downright delusional. "Boo hoo, teh regulations are teh evil. Horseshit.
Uber like to paint themselves as some crusading underdog being oppressed by the taxi lobby -- but that;'s a crock of shit.
They're a company dispatching bootleg cabs. That's it.
Followed by a temper tantrum that it's OK for them to break the law because they say so.
Sorry, but childish selfish douchebag isn't a business model. This is just more .com era crap of a tech company thinking they're magical because they say so.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
100%. this is why I refuse to install 'apps' and I really use my smartphone to just check email, run gps and sometimes use voice to make calls. most of a smart phone is wasted on me since I'm not a typical teen or 20someething who 'buys into' the whole shebang, lack of privacy and all.
android is not really trustable, carriers are a joke for trust, app writers tend to abuse their position and write crap or malicious code and the whole thing is a steaming pile of shit.
the smart phone thing had a lot of potential but I see that we have ruined this medium and device just like the 'business guys' have totally ruined the web and the internet as a whole.
now, I had nothing against uber before hearing this; but now, I won't be caught dead inside one of their cars, now. this 'war on your customers' is nothing I care to help fund or support!
uber can go fuck off. they don't exist to me, given this stance of theirs.
(and now I'm starting to have 2nd thoughts about having ANY 'contacts' in my contact list. again, phones cannot be trusted and apps, even less. best way to not have your friends spammed is, I guess, just to NOT even populate the contact list! seriously - might just return to flip phones and call it a century..)
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
I seem to have been using it for the wrong reasons.
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Nice propaganda piece. In the real world, libertarians are just the loud arm of one political party, who want to rip out the structure of laws, and have the US fall into a banana republic, hoping for an Ayn Rand paradise. Same thing happened with people touting Marx's works... the results are virtually the same. In fact, both philosophies talk about the state disappearing under their literature.
The US was a libertarian's dream from post Civil War until the 1920s. No laws on businesses, and if anyone protested about work conditions, the Pinkertons were called to burn their homes down (the original reason why getting removed from a job is called fired), or just open fire on protesters. Just uttering the word "union" was grounds to have a person strung up (and their family as well, for good measure.) Well, this was sustainable until it all collapsed in 1929.
I'm sorry to say, but both libertarian-ism and communism belong in the dustbin of history.
Want to know what works? Government regulating and private industry doing its thing. China and Europe both have government and union members on company boards. Private industry won't make roads... but governments will.
It takes both, and it takes checks and balances. The US may have another 1929 sooner than we think... and unlike back then... where a collapse was just dealing with internal issues, it is also dealing with external pressures. If the US does collapse, there will be PLA troops seizing cities on the Pacific coast in hours.