Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers

Re:Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers by azernik on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:52PM (#16235889)

Uber had the kicker that invasion of privacy was a top-down policy explicitly used by management.

Lyft still done fucked up, but not to the level that Uber did.

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Re:Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers by andrestan on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:50PM (#16236446)

Which news story about Uber makes invasion of privacy seem like a top-down policy?

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Re:Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers by azernik on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:20PM (#16236572)

About the company specifically designing and building an internal tool to make this process easier: https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-t...

That whole "greyball" story, which involved personal tracking of law enforcement officers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

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Re:Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers by mattmanser on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:52AM (#16238252)

And don't forget they got hold of the medical records of a woman who'd reported she'd been raped by an Uber driver:

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