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by Invictus0 2802 days ago
Yes, you're right. My calculation was 2^50 bytes in a PB / 10^10 trips, which should have been multiplied by 100 to get 100PB.

Which again leaves me wondering why Uber needs 100PB.

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They collect user location during the trip, app launches and every possible user action that may be useful for them while you're using the app.
Tinfoil hat: data that they slurp outside trips, like tracking user locations, etc
I do forecasting at Uber, we don’t collect data outside of trips.
What kind of problems do you work on?
>we don’t collect data outside of trips.

And it's not like Big Tech has ever misled people on this subject.