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Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

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Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

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Can we make the rule that it's not OK to post negative stories about YCombinator companies on this site? There are a million places to talk negative about everyhing. Here, we're trying to build things. We know no one is perfect. Lets make this place a bastion of positivity instead of negativity.

No.

Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

#32

Can we make the rule that it's not OK to post negative stories about YCombinator companies on this site? There are a million places to talk negative about everyhing. Here, we're trying to build things. We know no one is perfect. Lets make this place a bastion of positivity instead of negativity.

Is that really the type of site you'd want Hacker News to be?

Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

#33

Can we make the rule that it's not OK to post negative stories about YCombinator companies on this site? There are a million places to talk negative about everyhing. Here, we're trying to build things. We know no one is perfect. Lets make this place a bastion of positivity instead of negativity.

Most definitely not. If you truly care about YC companies, you'll care about what they're doing wrong so hopefully they can improve. Just dumping on something is of course not helpful in any context, but constructive criticism expressed civilly I can only imagine to be something YC and associated companies would welcome whole-heartedly.

Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

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I think it's time for the government to give you as many names as you want to give out to companies, and there's no reason for anyone who isn't suing you for it to know which of your aliases go together. Also aliases should be shared, to further conflate things. (nothing should stop my friends and i from sharing an alias and persona - companies should be legally forced to bend over backwards and enable this, for ever…

You don't need the government to give you a new name to start using a new name. You pick one and start using it.

No you can't. Try getting a credit card with a fake name on it. Or a bank account.

Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

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LOL. That's why some banks have option to generate CC numbers on the fly and tying those numbers to particular vendor.

Who still does that? I know American Express used to offer one-time CC numbers, but no longer does.

I know Discover offered it about ten years ago (saw a friend use it). I don't know if they still do. Always thought it was a cool feature and wanted a card that would allow it, but up to this point I don't think any of mine do.

Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOL. That's why some banks have option to generate CC numbers on the fly and tying those numbers to particular vendor.

Who still does that? I know American Express used to offer one-time CC numbers, but no longer does.

I have a credit card called Final VISA that does it as their main feature. (Signed up for it from here on HN; it's OK.)

Another company, Privacy.com, does on-the-fly numbers as debit cards drafting from your bank account.

Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

#37

Can we make the rule that it's not OK to post negative stories about YCombinator companies on this site? There are a million places to talk negative about everyhing. Here, we're trying to build things. We know no one is perfect. Lets make this place a bastion of positivity instead of negativity.

HN is already an echo chamber most of the time, let's not start censoring what content shows up just because it badmouths a YC company

Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

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This quote from another employee also looks naive now (and I'm not trying to offend him): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13086454

No, I'm not naive, and I, proudly, stand behind everything I wrote. The person in the article was terminated before I joined, so I don't know what the systems were like back then, but every time I access production systems, I have a ton of messages telling me that our access is being completely tracked and we are prohibited from doing anything that was mentioned in the article. I haven't actually tested to see what I…

I don't know if you're being serious or you're trying to damn them with faint praise by mentioning they changed their MOTD as a 'security measure'

If you want to defend uber, it's pretty easy, just say there you know people that work on the team that audits the logs of employee access to personal data every quarter, and if those logs aren't justified by a ticket people get fired.

Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

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This seems like a good place to tell Uber users that the only way of removing your credit card details from your Uber account is to either: a) plead with Uber's customer service to do so or b) add another payment method (like another credit card) This, of course, is horribly bad practice. I can only imagine that they arrived at this very peculiar arrangement after extensive A/B testing - Uber has hired plenty of FB f…

>So, no, I'm not surprised that this company is doing other unethical things - it sort of seems interwoven into their DNA.

Grubhub refused to delete my account even after pleading with them to do so many many times. To me seems like a general tech company trend not something specific to uber.

Re: Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes

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post #3

This seems like a good place to tell Uber users that the only way of removing your credit card details from your Uber account is to either: a) plead with Uber's customer service to do so or b) add another payment method (like another credit card) This, of course, is horribly bad practice. I can only imagine that they arrived at this very peculiar arrangement after extensive A/B testing - Uber has hired plenty of FB f…

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