Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance.
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Uber sues LA in bid to protect scooter riders’ geolocation data
The anonymized real-time location data the city’s after can easily be associated with riders, thereby jeopardizing their privacy, Uber says.
Uber gets its first chief security officer – Facebook’s Joe Sullivan
Uber just poached Facebook’s Joe Sullivan to act as the ride-hailing app company’s first chief security officer. It might make you wonder – why didn’t Uber have a CSO before now?
Uber subpoenas GitHub in search for hacker of driver database
A breach of one of its databases in May 2014, in which the names and driver license numbers of 50,000 “driver partners” were stolen, is the latest entry on Uber’s growing list privacy and security blunders.