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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday December 01, 2016 @10:01PM (#13085635)
The issue then becomes Uber is doing it so all the other ride hailing apps start doing it.

This is how the Overton Window shifts, and how our right to privacy is rapidly eroded.

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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by AlexandrB on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:44PM (#13086093)
If you described 2016 to me in 2004, I'd call you a paranoid lunatic, yet here we are. I'm starting to realize that many of the "alarmist" voices [1] of that time were, in fact, optimistic.

Thinking about what's considered "alarmist" today makes me fear for the future.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/you-are-a-suspect....

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