Uber’s C.E.O. Plays with Fire

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Post by xgil » Sun, Apr 23, 2017, 5:18 PM UTC

Uber’s C.E.O. Plays with Fire
nytimes.com

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 23, 2017, 5:28 PM UTC

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Post by xgil » Sun, Apr 23, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

> For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app from Apple’s engineers. The reason? So Apple would not find out that Uber had secretly been tracking iPhones even after its app had been deleted from the devices, violating Apple’s privacy guidelines.

How could they track iPhones after the app was deleted?

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Post by shalmanese » Sun, Apr 23, 2017, 5:48 PM UTC

The animation playing at the top of the article is pure uncanny valley nightmare fuel.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 23, 2017, 5:49 PM UTC

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Post by citruspi » Sun, Apr 23, 2017, 5:50 PM UTC

xgil wrote: post #3

> For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app from Apple’s engineers. The reason? So Apple would not find out that Uber had secretly been tracking iPhones even after its app had been deleted from the devices, violating Apple’s privacy guidelines. How could they track iPhones after the app was deleted?

This question has been discussed for over an hour in the other post[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178682

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Post by greenyoda » Sun, Apr 23, 2017, 6:18 PM UTC

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397