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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 lostlogin »

ibejoeb wrote: post #93
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 was recently unsettled when I installed Lyft on a new phone after a pretty long lapse. Sure enough, with no verification of any kind, my credit card information was still there. Apparently it is keyed to the phone number. Insane.

Crumbs. Are numbers in the US recycled as quickly as they are here in New Zealand?

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

#102

Post by ars »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #34
tedunangst wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you already have a card with a real name, getting another one as an authorized user with a fake name is really easy.

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

#103

Post by kakarot »

ars wrote: post #100
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…

Just use an online credit card number generator to put in a random number. Also see if you can use a test number (there are lists online).

Great short-term solution, bad long-term solution.

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

#104

Post by ars »

kakarot wrote: post #103
ars wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just use an online credit card number generator to put in a random number. Also see if you can use a test number (there are lists online).

Great short-term solution, bad long-term solution.

Why? If someone tries a charge it'll get rejected since the name and expiration date won't match (unless you get crazy [un]lucky).

Just change it to that and never use it.

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

#105

Post by dalyons »

lostlogin wrote: post #101
ibejoeb wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was recently unsettled when I installed Lyft on a new phone after a pretty long lapse. Sure enough, with no verification of any kind, my credit card information was still there. Apparently it is keyed to the phone number. Insane.

Crumbs. Are numbers in the US recycled as quickly as they are here in New Zealand?

Yes, typically within 30 days

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

#106

Post by bigmofo »

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…

When you lose your credit card and you call your credit card company and them them that you lost it, they issue you a new card with new numbers; this way anybody that had the information on the card would not be able to make further transactions. I would consider the card lost when a company would not delete the credit card information on my request to delete the information.

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

#107

Post by pyrale »

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 would be surprised to learn that method b actually deletes any information from Uber's db.

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

#108

Post by jayajay »

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…

Yeah, this news doesn't even make me mad anymore. Companies have my data, and I assume that bored employees who know matlab and SQL can plot interesting graphs about me.

I'll be damned if Zuck wasn't snooping on students' private conversations when he was 19. Kid like him? He must've been feeling like God. Hell, if I was 19 and could look at M-rated messages between my friends, I probably would've too.

What makes me more mad is the official policy you mention -- not carrying out my account-related requests. I couldn't care less what their employees masturbate to. If I ask for my account to be deleted, I would prefer they carried that out.

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

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Post by NietTim »

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…

I have a legally binding contract with my phone carrier, which is located in my country of residence. The US can do whatever the fuck they want with the data you collect and it's not theirs to have.

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

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Post by thasaleni »

techsupporter wrote: post #36
mbreedlove wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Such a shame that Privacy.com app is country locked, I'm from South Africa and would definitely use something like this
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