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They have the location data of everyone using their service. They also have "god view":

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/03/god-view-...



>"Sims got the text “from someone he hardly knew,” he recalls in a Medium post, asking him if he was in an Uber car at 33rd Street and 5th Avenue."

Wow I forgot about this fiasco. It literally reads like a scene from The Circle. Disturbing.


That fiasco is reason alone to never ride in an Uber.


Now, which of their executives is going to end up as a senator?




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