[snarf]

So "Hell" was the name of their program for tracking Lyft drivers, and "Heaven" or "God View" was the name of their program for tracking Uber passengers. The allegations of Uber employees abusing the privacy of individual passengers using God View go back to at least 2014, so this actually isn't anything new, just more specifics about who they were spying on. See here for a screenshot of their God View emailed to a journalist without her permission: https://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating...

And see here for their cute Dr. Evil mascot that's part of their God View, which doesn't seem so funny any more: https://www.engadget.com/2014/11/19/uber-godview-tracking/

[bpicolo]

> See here for a screenshot of their God View emailed to a journalist without her permission

That screenshot doesn't really have anything bad in it, to be fair. It's a view of their cars in the city.

[bonzini]

No, it shows the last two weeks of Uber activity for the journalist:

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-11/18/2...

[bpicolo]

Ah, sure. Is the complaint that they make that readily available to some set of people? It'd be silly to not expect them to have rider history in general

[celticninja]

There is a difference between having anonymised data available for analysis and individuals having direct access to complete individual data sets.