Your Uber Tracking Device Is Now Active

Re:Your Uber Tracking Device Is Now Active by floatingatoll on Thursday December 28, 2017 @04:36AM (#16021143)

The point isn’t how it gets the coordinates. It’s that the User disabled Location Services, which means that the User’s expectation (on Apple’s platform) is that the app will not locate the User, regardless of whether it theoretically can do so with GPS, WiFi, or a stellar sextant.

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Re:Your Uber Tracking Device Is Now Active by mcguire on Thursday December 28, 2017 @09:39AM (#16022195)

Assuming the app is sending an old, cached location, why would they want to do that?

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Re:Your Uber Tracking Device Is Now Active by ashare80 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @01:50PM (#16023962)

The simplest explanation is that it is used for sharding. (Uber iOS dev)

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Re:Your Uber Tracking Device Is Now Active by solarkraft on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:24AM (#16027759)

And the real one?

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