Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ...
by bastawhiz on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:49PM
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That Uber could have a bug that sends all location data is irrelevant. Google, Apple, Lyft, Yelp, Foursquare, Microsoft, or any other company that has any app that accesses and transmits location data could have an identical bug that presents an identical problem, and Google and Apple already regularly collect and transmit that data all the time without it being a bug. And being a bug of biblical proportions, it'll get resolved very, very quickly because it would be causing a hugely expensive outage.
Uber also only uses strong TLS for connections, so "the powers that be" will have a heck of a time taking a real heap of gigabits (terabits?) per second of encrypted data and doing anything particularly useful with it.
Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ...
by brokenmachine on Friday December 02, 2016 @12:39AM
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I'm convinced!
Does uber offer a password/bank information storage service?
With such great security and unhackable storage, those are the next logical upgrade and would make a really great one-stop service for your customers.
Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ...
by HappyTypist on Friday December 09, 2016 @07:08PM
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No, Uber internally uses OneLogin with mandatory 2FA.
That is completely irrelevant. The powers that be can siphon off the data as it comes in. The danger is in receiving excess data in the first place, making yourself a more enticing target for collection activities.