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Re:Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists by spacefight on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @03:31AM (#8622977)
They have the location data of everyone using their service. They also have "god view":

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/03/god-view-...

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Re:Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists by clay_to_n on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @04:53AM (#8623170)
>"Sims got the text “from someone he hardly knew,” he recalls in a Medium post, asking him if he was in an Uber car at 33rd Street and 5th Avenue."

Wow I forgot about this fiasco. It literally reads like a scene from The Circle. Disturbing.

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Re:Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists by spacefight on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:15AM (#8623239)
That fiasco is reason alone to never ride in an Uber.
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Re:Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists by lotsofmangos on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @04:52AM (#8623167)
Now, which of their executives is going to end up as a senator?
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