4 thoughts on ““Data sleaze: Uber and beyond”

  1. I believe Uber was assigning an ID to a phone when it registered the app. When the app was then deleted, Uber did not track the phone at all; it was just a registry of phones kept by Uber. When the app was installed again, the phone was ID’d by Uber. The unknown question is how this was done: did they access a UDID? Did they use their own algorithm? Speculation is they actually accessed the phone serial number, which violates Apple policy in a bunch of ways. And this is the proof offered:
    https://mobile.twitter.com/chronic/status/856250223777206273

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