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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by forgottenpass on Thursday December 01, 2016 @10:45PM (#13085810)
The data is used for (or can be used for) a number of practical and important purposes.

so.. uh.. (eyebrow wag) what else do you use it for that you didn't enumerate?

The risk of abuse is exceptionally low.

Except, of course, events where you and I disagree about what abuse is. Like tracking journalists around for shits and giggles.

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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by zymhan on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:00PM (#13085881)
Or a romantic interest. Or any one of a million other reasons. Because no one has ever abused a massive trove of data for such trivial reasons before...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT

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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by coldtea on Friday December 02, 2016 @12:09AM (#13086197)
Yeah, it's not also as if the government (or another government, as Uber is worldwide) can't also take hold of the Uber data...
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