Your Uber Tracking Device Is Now Active

Re:Your Uber Tracking Device Is Now Active by SilasX on Thursday December 28, 2017 @01:18PM (#16023737)

You're both technically right, but you're writing in a way that suggests his article is somehow without basis or not something to worry about; but it's just the opposite.

It seems he's pointing out that, even if you turn off location services, any app can just get around that by locating you via wifi. Isn't that worrisome, even if not unique to Uber?

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Re:Your Uber Tracking Device Is Now Active by willstrafach on Thursday December 28, 2017 @02:09PM (#16024103)

I fully understand your point, and it is indeed a problem. In fact I have personally called out other apps for this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...

Thing is, possibly as a result, Apple blocked ARP access in iOS 11. You can no longer get the BSSID and use that to get user location. Because the post indicates he used an iOS 11 device, this leads me to believe the coordinates were also not obtained with Wi-Fi information.

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Re:Your Uber Tracking Device Is Now Active by mxxx on Thursday December 28, 2017 @02:50PM (#16024412)

yeah don't get me wrong, if that's what it's doing it's still a dark pattern. but maybe _slightly_ less insidious than the alternative.

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