[azernik]

Uber had the kicker that invasion of privacy was a top-down policy explicitly used by management.

Lyft still done fucked up, but not to the level that Uber did.

[andrestan]

Which news story about Uber makes invasion of privacy seem like a top-down policy?

[azernik]

Tracking a journalist: https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-t...

About the company specifically designing and building an internal tool to make this process easier: https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-t...

That whole "greyball" story, which involved personal tracking of law enforcement officers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

[mattmanser]

And don't forget they got hold of the medical records of a woman who'd reported she'd been raped by an Uber driver:

https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-indi...