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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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Post by brianwawok »

cm2187 wrote: post #150
ranman wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>In other cases, the bank will actually update the vendor with your new card number so that subscriptions are not interrupted. That's apparently a feature: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-accoun...

Even if it is stolen? This thing is massively dangerous. It ensures your credit card details are stored all over the place for them to be leaked or stolen, with no way for the consumer to clean this up.

In theory they would make sure it was an account you used before the theft.

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

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Post by manyxcxi »

mwfj wrote: 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…

I don't have any financial stake in them, I'm just a pleased patron, but it's this stuff that had me leaping to be an early adopter of Final[0].

Flat out, it's a credit card- but with their site or app you can generate single use numbers and CV2, or you can generate merchant locked numbers for things like Uber. There's a lot more they offer, but those two things are what I got it for and how I use it.

[0] https://www.getfinal.com

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

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Post by chippy »

droopyEyelids wrote: post #29

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.

You really should not be being downvoted as your opinion is shared (in my experience) by the majority of struggling startup founders. The founders want to get big and successful and view negativity by techies as at best needless pessimism and at worse as symptomatic of a kind of anti-capitalism.

Capitalists who value the free market who are also the bosses and entrepreneurs see opposition to their money making efforts as an affront to their very core values.

In my opinion it's the wrong way to think - and the root cause is unchecked free market capitalism. However, I think it's true that many people think that to succeed as a startup, money comes before morals. We shouldn't hide that, but criticise it and voice our concerns.

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

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Post by cm2187 »

brianwawok wrote: post #161
cm2187 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if it is stolen? This thing is massively dangerous. It ensures your credit card details are stored all over the place for them to be leaked or stolen, with no way for the consumer to clean this up.

In theory they would make sure it was an account you used before the theft.

Yeah but letting services expire with the credit card unless you still use them is not a bad way to get rid of all the services you subscribed thinking it could be useful but never used.

Reminds me of what was done in the military (I think it was in a European country). Officers were spending their time writing reports that were never read. They introduced a policy under which for a given time everyone should stop writing reports until someone complained that they were not receiving it. And if that didn't happen this type of report would be scrapped.

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

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Post by angry-hacker »

mwfj wrote: 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…

Another way I discovered by accident: Add paypal, remove cc, revoke PayPal from its own settings. PayPal is left there buy there is no way to charge you anymore.

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

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Post by rbcgerard »

michaelvoz wrote: post #47
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #18

Don't forget that Uber now requires you allow them to access your location, even when you aren't using their app [1]. Side note: consider the value to foreign (or domestic) intelligence agencies of this weakly-guarded pot of gold. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/30/13763714/uber-location-da...

Disclaimer: I work for Uber. However, my opinions are mine. I am also not defending nor attacking in any way Uber gathering location data. With that out of the way - you know your cell phone carrier already has this data right? They have way better data than Uber ever will about all your habits, including establishing relationships based on who you call, which sites you visit, who you are signed up on a plan with, et…

Ahh, my phone company knows, so why not let everybody know!

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

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Post by x1798DE »

mschuetz wrote: post #154

"stalk celebrities and their exes" sounds to me like it could mean: - stalk celebrities, as well as the exes of said celebrities - employees stalk their exes and also some celebrities It's obviously the latter but couldn't the same sentence imply the former as well? Is their a better way to formulate this sentence in a non-ambiguous way?

I think it's unambiguous if you switch the order: "Employees stalk their exes and celebrities"

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

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Post by Xcelerate »

manyxcxi wrote: post #162
mwfj wrote: 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…

I don't have any financial stake in them, I'm just a pleased patron, but it's this stuff that had me leaping to be an early adopter of Final[0]. Flat out, it's a credit card- but with their site or app you can generate single use numbers and CV2, or you can generate merchant locked numbers for things like Uber. There's a lot more they offer, but those two things are what I got it for and how I use it. [0] https://www…

Any quicker way to get that than waiting for 354,000 people to get it first?
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