Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off
I saw this earlier and had hopes that the update would just let me choose &quot;While Using&quot; in the app settings, like some other apps allow you even if they request access even while not using the app, but the settings only allow for &quot;Always&quot; or &quot;Never&quot; on iPhone. However, you can use Uber without allowing GPS, so it&#x27;s not all or nothing.<p>I&#x27;m a little disturbed that they need any information after I use Uber though. They know where I was picked up and where I&#x27;m going, why do they need to know where I&#x27;m at after I get dropped off? That&#x27;s a little intrusive to me. The proposed argument in the article, &quot;Uber hopes to eliminate the most frustrating part of the experience: the game of phone tag that both the rider and driver play when trying to coordinate the pickup spot,&quot; is fine and I&#x27;d accept that even though I&#x27;m extremely wary of apps that have access to my GPS data while I&#x27;n not using the app because I can&#x27;t see it in fine detail (as far as I know you only can see that <i>some</i> app is accessing your GPS currently, not which one(s) exactly). However, Uber has no need for the data after I am finished. I&#x27;m not a fan of being tracked in general, by governments or otherwise, but for a private company to request data after I finish using their services is intrusive and maybe this is conspiracy but I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if this data is sent real time and it&#x27;s possible to see where a user is at any given time after they leave the car (during that 5 minute window).<p>I&#x27;m also curious how this will bump up against EU privacy laws. I&#x27;m in the states and this may only be enabled for certain markets, but I wonder if this would cause issues in EU if it&#x27;s enabled there.