[newscracker]

There are two sides to this.

One is where we believe, based on your words (or some random person on the Internet who claims to be an employee), Uber employees are restricted from accessing customer data...you know, like LOVINT in the NSA. [1]

The second is where we believe, based on your words (and associated caveats), that Uber does not have a firehose feeding all this information to some other entity that has a much larger capacity for "machine learning", has far lesser actual oversight than what you claim to be in place in Uber, and uses that data for many things we don't know the impact of. This point might sound like I'm talking only about the NSA and trust in the U.S. government, but keep in mind that Uber operates in many countries, and all of their governments have an interest in gaining such data and using it for their own purposes.

Post Snowden, neither of these sides look harmless. I'm talking about the world society as a whole, not just about what one person may consider ("nothing to hide") or what negative experiences that some people may never go through in life.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24...