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by danjoc 3290 days ago
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?
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astrange 3290 days ago
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.

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danjoc 3289 days ago
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...

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