ALERT: Uber Now Tracks You After Your Ride: Here's How To Stop That
Uber is now tracking your location even after you leave the car. A location-tracking feature that the ride-sharing company proposed last year has gone live, despite fierce opposition from privacy advocates. The good news is that you can turn it off; the bad news is that the process is trickier than it should be. The Naked Security blog from Sophos, a British security firm, has all the details. Version 3.222.4 of the Uber app for Android and iOS adds the new location-tracking feature. In previous versions, Uber kept track of your location only when you had the app open — a sensible enough feature, given that it helped dispatch cars right to you. The new version, however, keeps tracking after you get out of the car, through your phone's location settings. Although you can turn off location tracking, as Uber promised, the company played a cruel trick by forcing users to leave the app and grapple with the sometimes-unintuitive Android and OS settings menus. Even worse: For ...