{"id":183402,"date":"2014-12-01T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/01\/f-uber-part-infinity\/"},"modified":"2014-12-01T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T02:14:00","slug":"f-uber-part-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/01\/f-uber-part-infinity\/","title":{"rendered":"F%$# Uber, Part Infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a report of a person who had a job interview with Uber, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/12\/01\/is-ubers-rider-database-a-sitting-duck-for-hackers\/\">was granted the ability to view the complete travel history of any Uber Customer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Now add that all this location data was not held by a battle-hardened company with tons of lawyers and security experts, such as Google. Instead, this data was held by a start-up that was growing with viral exuberance \u2013 and with so few privacy protections that it created a \u201cGod View\u201d to display the movements of riders in real-time and at least once projected such information on a screen for entertainment at a company party.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And let\u2019s not forget that individual employees could access historical data on the movements of particular people without their permission, as an Uber executive in New York City reportedly did when he pulled the travel records of a Buzzfeed reporter who was working on a story about the company.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Then there are the personal travels of government officials and their families. A person who had a job interview in Uber\u2019s Washington office in 2013 said he got the kind of access enjoyed by actual employees for an entire day, even for several hours after the job interview ended. He happily crawled through the database looking up the records of people he knew \u2013 including a family member of a prominent politician \u2013 before the seemingly magical power disappeared.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWhat an Uber employee would have is everything, complete,\u201d said this person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from the company.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can see how the employee would fear retribution.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO is an Ayn Rand loving sociopath, and he, almost any employee at the central office, or an enterprising hacker, can pull up your travel history.<\/p>\n<p>How do you know that some tabloid reporter doesn&#8217;t have an Uber employee on their payroll?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a report of a person who had a job interview with Uber, and was granted the ability to view the complete travel history of any Uber Customer: \u2026\u2026\u2026Now add that all this location data was not held by a battle-hardened company with tons of lawyers and security experts, such as Google. Instead, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,987,1066,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-fail","category-privacy","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}