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by astrange 3291 days ago
Don't worry, Lyft Line definitely exists.

I don't know what kind of crime being a passenger in one would result in though.

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Who says you have to be in the car?

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-soon-able-to-track-your-...

Or did they roll that "feature" back?

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/07/ios-11-restrict-locatio...

If you care about the police, they can subpoena your phone's location no matter what app is running on it. They can also find your car with license plate readers.

False equivalence. Capturing that kind of granular information is HARD and phone companies do not do it at the level Uber is capable of.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/9/28/how-uber-manages-a...