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Re:Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a persona... by stcredzero on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:08PM (#16162611)
Can parents track the movements of their child through Lyft and Uber billing? If I were a caricature of Uber, I might be tempted to create an add-on subscription product that would let parents of minors track the movements of their children.

The societal effect of something like this? Possibly awful. Many of today's social problems might stem from children being deprived of time being independent/autonomous. Society doesn't need free range chickens nearly as badly as it needs free range children.

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Re:Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a persona... by icebraining on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:55PM (#16163076)
If you're old enough to get a driver's license, you're old enough to find how to get your own Uber account.

And besides, driving their own car doesn't free them from that tracking: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=572519...

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Re:Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a persona... by goialoq on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:30PM (#16164340)
Tracking your child's movements gives the far more autonomy than locking them in the house, for parents concerned about their children's whereabouts. Outside of cases of abuse (not to be discounted), parental location tracking isn't infringing on "free-range children"
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Re:Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a persona... by ghaff on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:14PM (#16162670)
The Lyft receipt shows the route taken.

Of course, parents could turn on the contact tracking in an iPhone.

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