Uber says it gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12M users
> Uber said it had not received any national security letters or orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act.<p>An NSL is typically reserved for companies who can give broad access to user data, such as requiring all previous and any future data for x amount of time for 3-hops from a single persons social network (which could be hundreds of people).<p>That plus obscure the target. So an NSL wouldn't be necessary if they could hit up the regulators for large data dumps. The only question then is providing real-time access/future data.<p>I'm not sure Uber fits the profile for NSLs. Primarily given the fact that Uber likely doesn't have social network data on their riders so a simple court order for a single users rides and GPS locations is probably all that's available for an NSA/FBI investigations. Unlike an email provider like Yahoo/Lavabit, or an ISP for example, which could provide multi-hop data.<p>I'm curious if they built the NSA/FBI a full realtime data feed access system the way Blackberry did [1] for their BBM system during G20 in Toronto in 2010. Since the founder of Uber spoke about having a "god-mode" system [2] in place to do pretty much the same. It wouldn't be hard to expose that same system to federal agencies (even voluntarily).<p>[1] <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-17/blackberry-defends-smartphone-security-after-g-20-spying-report" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-17/blackberry...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-its-top-new-york-executive-for-privacy" rel="nofollow">http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-...</a>